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Name: REYNOLDS, Ellis Frederick (Staff Serjeant Major)

Birth Date: 24 Feb 1882 Claremont, Western Cape, S. Africa

Death Date: 21 July 1919 Nairobi, pneumonia

Last Date: 1919

Book Reference: CWGC, Barnes

War Service: EA Mil. Labour Corps

General Information:

CWGC - Nairobi South Cemetery - Staff Serjeant Major (WO1) Ellis Frederick Reynolds, 12455, East African Military Labour Corps. Died of pneumonia 22nd July 1919. Age 33. Son of Isaac Benjamin and Maria Clarence Reynolds of Cape Province. Served in the South African Campaign. Grave III.B.7
East African Standard 26 June 1919 The death occurred on Monday evening of Sergt.-Major E. S. Reynolds, of the M.L.C., who died at the European Hospital from pneumonia. The deceased Sergt.-Major, it will be remembered, played left wing three-quarter in the recent Rugby football match between Home and South Africa, at which it is believed, he contracted the fatal chill. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon.

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