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Pte. Peter Reynolds
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Earlestown, Lancashire
(d.1st February 1917)
My great-great-uncle, Peter Reynolds, emigrated to Earlestown in Lancashire from Clonfane, Trim, County Meath sometime before the 1911 census. He worked as a coal miner and married an Emily Luke before enlisting in 1915 and being sent to France with the 8th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
He first served in the Balkans on 2nd of August 1915. Medal card records receipt of Victory British Medal and 1914-1915 Star. He was killed in action on 1st February 1917 in Flanders and is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery.