233618 Gnr. Percy John Reynolds British Army 114 Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery from:Caterham My father died when I was four years old and my mother remarried and lost touch with my grandparents so I know little about my grandfather, Percy Reynolds, apart from what I discovered on Ancestry.
Percy joined up in October 1912 before the First World War and he was stationed in Malta and in Antioch, but there does not seem to be a lot of information on this part of the war.
He did receive the British Silver war badge and medal for action in France, but I cannot find out where this was. He left France in February 1916 after 16 months of action and was drafted out as medically unfit for military service (shell shock?)in January 1917. The doctor's statement was "Even if he recovered he would be worse than useless for the army".
According to my mother and father's wedding certificate in 1938 he was a butler. If anyone has any further information about him I would like to know.
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