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Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Reynolds VC (3 February 1844 – 4 March 1932), born Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and ...
Surgeon Major J H Reynolds was subsequently awarded the VC for his part in the action and public pressure led to awards being made to Acting Assistant Commissary J L Dalton and Corporal F C Schiess.
Reynolds, James Henry (1844–1932), army surgeon and VC, was born 3 February 1844 in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, second son of Laurence Reynolds, JP and owner of a tavern, hotel, and livery stables at 7 Queen St., Dublin, moving later ( c. 1868) to Dalyston House, Granard, Co. Longford.
James Henry Reynolds was born in Dublin on February 3rd 1844. Educated at Castleknock School, Dublin, he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Trinity College, Dublin in 1867, before joining the Army Medical Department in March 1868.
Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds VC. Surgeon Reynolds of the Army Medical Department was attached to the 24th Regiment and posted at Rorke's Drift with B Company 2nd Battalion. He was awarded the VC for his bravery at the defence of the post.
ON January 22, 1879, during the Defence of Rorke's Drift, Surgeon- Major Reynolds behaved with conspicuous bravery, attending to the wounded under a heavy cross-fire from the Zulus on the hills above the Post, and a continual shower of assagais from those attacking the barricades.
James Henry Reynolds was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in 1895. He may be the only child of Henry James and Isabella Reynolds. He worked as a groom in 1911. He enlisted in Uxbridge into The Royal Fusiliers as a Lance Corporal and was Killed in Action, aged 21, on the 1st July 1916. He lies in The Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
