Reynolds

Albert George Ryenolds

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Reynolds, Albert G

12 February 1898, Ludlow, Shropshire

Albert and Mary (née Gunner)

13th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

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Rifleman (Private)

12 September 1918, France, age 20

Named on Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France: Panel 9

Biography:
Albert George Reynolds was born on 12 February 1898, in Ludlow, Shropshire. He was the son of Albert John, a grocer’s assistant, and Mary Anne (née
Gunner). He had a sister, Ethel Mary.

By 1901, the family had moved to Ash, Surrey. In 1905, they moved to Knaphill.

Albert was conscripted when he was 18. He joined the 13th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

Albert George Reynolds was reported missing on 12 September 1918 and presumed killed. His final resting place is unknown; he is commemorated, along
with others of his regiment, on Panel 9 of the Vis-En-Artois Memorial.

The Vis-En-Artois Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois,
between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa.

The Memorial, designed by J R Truelove, with sculpture by Ernest Gillick, consists of a screen wall in three parts. The middle part of the screen wall is concave and carries stone panels
on which names are carved. It is 26 feet high flanked by pylons 70 feet high. The Stone of Remembrance stands exactly between the pylons and behind it, in the middle of the screen, is a
group in relief representing St George and the Dragon. The flanking parts of the screen wall are also curved and carry stone panels carved with names. Each of them forms the back of a
roofed colonnade; and at the far end of each is a small building.

Albert is also commemorated on his parents’ headstone in St John’s Cemetery, Woking and on the memorial tablet within Knaphill Holy Trinity Church.