Corporal Reynolds was a member of Company B, 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, US Army. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 2, 1950 and died while a prisoner in Pyoktong Prisoner of War Camp in North Korea on May 1, 1951 and was buried there. His remains have been recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.