| The History of Coagh booklet lists Gunner Austin McReynolds as having served with the Royal Garrison Artillery in the war.
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| Austin McReynolds was the son of Thomas Alexander and Mary Eliza McReynolds (nee Stinson).
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| Austin McReynolds was born on 24th March 1897 in the Coagh area. He was one of at least nine children.
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| The 1901 census records the family living at Edernagh, Coagh, County Tyrone. Austin was 4 years old. His father was a farmer.
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| The 1911 census shows that the family were still a farming family in Edernagh. Austin was now 14 years old and working on his father’s farm.
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| Known family: Thomas Alexander McReynolds, Mary Eliza McReynolds, Thomas Alexander McReynolds (born about 1893), Edward Norman McReynolds (born 20th September 1895), Austin McReynolds (born 24th March 1897), Mabel G McReynolds (born about 1899), William McReynolds (born 25th January 1900), Samuel McReynolds (born about 1901), George Ernest McReynolds (born 28th March 1901), Albert Edward McReynolds (born 26th August 1902), Ivy Violet McReynolds (born 31st October 1904).
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| His father, Thomas Alexander McReynolds, was a Rural District Councillor (R.D.C.).
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| Austin McReynolds served with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
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| Gunner McReynolds went through the 1915 Gallipoli campaign without a scratch, except from a spent bullet.
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| Gunner Austin McReynolds subsequently served in Egypt and then in France.
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| By February 1918 he was serving in Italy.
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| From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 23rd February 1918: Private T A McReynolds (brother of Austin McReynolds)
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| Mr Thomas A McReynolds, R.D.C., Kingsmills, Cookstown, has received official intimation that his eldest son, Private T A McReynolds, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was reported missing on the western front on 9th October, was then killed or died of wounds. The deceased, who was in his 25th year, had been on the North Irish Horse before the war, and was in a situation in Scotland. He immediately volunteered for service when war was declared and joined the Dragoon Guards, and was in France in September 1914. He was twice wounded when in the Guards. Last autumn he was transferred to the Warwickshires, and shortly afterwards he was reported missing. He was seen wounded during the advance, but as he was only a short time in the regiment, and as the survivors of the gallant attack were comparatively few, it has proved impossible to get definitive evidence of his death.
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| His younger brother, Austin McReynolds, is in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He got through the Gallipoli campaign without a scratch, except from a spent bullet. He then served in Egypt and in France, and is at present with the guns in Italy waiting for the Austrians.
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