Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
Coagh - Those That Served
32788   Private Thomas Alex McReynolds
Dated added: 30/12/2015
Last updated: 11/02/2019
Personal Details
Regiment/Service:
16th Battalion, Warwickshire Regiment (British Army)
Died:
09/10/1917 (Killed in Action)
Age:
25
Summary
Thomas Alexander McReynolds was the son of T.A. McReynolds, Kingsmills, Stewartstown. Thomas volunteered for service when war was declared having previously served with the North Irish Horse before the war. He enlisted with the Dragoon Guards and was sent to France in 1914 where he was wounded twice. He transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the autumn of 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres and shortly after joining he was reported missing during an advance at Polygon Wood, Belgium.
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Cemetery Details
Grave
Cemetery:
Tyne Cot Memorial
Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen
Grave Ref:
Panel 23-28-163a
CWGC Casualty:
Summary
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks. The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the centre of the Memorial.
Local Memorial Details
No Memorial Name Townland
1 Coagh War Memorial Coagh
2 Coagh Soldiers and Sailors War Memorial 2013- WW1 - Panel 2 Coagh
3 Kingsmills Orange Hall Roll of Honour WW1 Coagh
References and Links
No Link Reference Map Doc
1 1901 Census lists McReynolds family Lists Thomas Alex as age 8 at house 1 in Edernagh, Coagh, Tyrone
2 1911 Census lists McReynolds family Lists Thomas Alex as age 18 at house 5 in Edernagh, Coagh, Tyrone
3 Brother - Austin McReynolds Also served in the the war
4 Cookstown War Dead Full details on Cookstown War Dead
Coagh & District in WW1
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