Leading
Aircraftsman Lawrence Reynolds was 20 years old when he died. He was the gunner/ radio operator in a light
bomber called a Fairey Battle, the lead aircraft in a raid on bridges crossing
the Albert Canal in Belgium on 12 May 1940. He
is buried in Heverlee War Cemetery near Leuven next to the two other members of
his crew, Flying Officer Donald Garland, the pilot, and
the navigator/observer, Flight Sergeant Thomas Gray. Gray was 26 and Garland was 21.
The crew were
part of No. 12 Squadron, RAF and their flight had been based at the village of Amifontaine,
France from the previous December.
