Albert Lawrence REYNOLDS

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REYNOLDS, Albert Lawrence

Service Number:	1422
Enlisted:	6 November 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Albury, Albury Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Home schooled
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in action, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915
Cemetery:	Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot III, Row B, Grave No 11. DUTY NOBLY DONE HIS MOTHER
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

6 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1422, 3rd Infantry Battalion
11 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1422, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
11 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1422, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney

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Biography contributed by VWM Australia

Enlisted and served as Albert Reynolds

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Albert Reynolds enlisted in Liverpool, New South Wales during November 1914. He was living in Albury, New South Wales, with his mother at the time, his father having disappeared from the family some five years before the war. Albert served at the Anzac Landing with the 3rd Battalion, and was there for three weeks before he was slightly wounded in the scalp.

He returned to Gallipoli during July 1915 and went missing during the Battle of Lone Pine on 7 August 1915. He was not pronounced as killed in action until almost 12 months later.

At about the same time the news of his death reached Australia, his younger brother, Alfred Edward Reynolds, aged 18, enlisted in the 21st Battalion. He subsequently died of wounds in Belgium on 9 October 1917. They were the sons of the presumed late Thomas Reynolds and Mary Ann (his wife), who was living at Howe's Creek, Mansfield, Victoria at the time.

Albert Reynolds, it was reported to his mother during 1920, was subsequently found to have a grave in Browns Dip Cemetery, just near Lone Pine. His remains were moved to the Lone Pine Cemetery during 1923 due to erosion problems at Browns Dip.

The mother, Mary Ann, was in constant contact with the AIF, even up to 1924, regarding medal entitlements, photographs of graves and her many changes of address. She signed off on one letter, “My son was an Anzac.” She received a pension for the loss of two sons.

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