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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: mum2minxes on Friday 19 April 13 09:42 BST (UK)
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Hi
Someone kindly sent this wonderful photo to me, and i would love to pass it to the Reynolds family. It was taken by a long distant relative of mine who took photos during the Boer War 6th Dragoon South Africa.
Regards
Wendy
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Stunning :) My grandfather will be in this pic somewhere, as he was 6th DG during the Boer War. I have nil pics of him, bar x1 in his old age, and of course, he died almost 20yrs before I was born....
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3509 Stephen Roy Reynolds, born Kings Norton, Birmingham Q1 1878.
Son of Edward Reynolds of Spring Hill Farm, Melton, Chipping Norton, Oxon (1896).
Enlisted 21/10/96 in 6th Dragoon Guards.
Promoted sergeant 26/8/01.
Busted back to corporal 26/10/03.
To Reserve 17/11/04.
Discharged 20/10/08.
Served in South Africa 3/11/99-14/8/02, then India until 14/11/04.
He appears to have emigrated to Canada in 1905 and married in 1911 at Toronto to Jane Elizabeth Lees. (Mistranscribed as Stephen K Reynolds in Ancestry's 1911 Canadian census.)
Adrian
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Hi Scrimnet I have PM you.
Hi Adrian , thank you very much for the information on Stephen Roy Reynolds , your a star :)
Regards
Wendy
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Great Photo. I thought we would only ever find sketches drawn by artists sent to South Africa like this one of the Coldstream Guards charging at Diamond Hill.
My Great Uncle, William Grant, brother of my Dad's mother was in the Coldsteam Guards and his record shows the same up and down progress, e.g. G.C pay then Forfeit G.C. pay, but it was the small entries that gave me quite a shock. When he came out, he went on to the reserve and before long was called back and sent to South Africa. The battles he was in, including Diamond Hill are all listed there in his record, along with his medals.
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William Grant's Service Record -
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Page 1 of William Grant's record showing his progress in the Army and charge.
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Hello Malcom
Thank you for sharing your details of William fantastic :)
Regards
Wendy