BORN HULL 17/04/1886. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM RYAN (1844-1903) & LATE CAROLINE MARSHALL (1858-1907), OF 3, ARNETTS PLACE, NORTH STREET, HULL. SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS. HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN BRADFORD. HIS MOTHER WAS A NATIVE, OF STOKE ALBANY, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A FORMER, BOTTLE WASHER, HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY AND SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
A REGULAR SOLDIER, LIVING WITH HIS MARRIED SISTER, JULIA WILKINSON (1881-1970), WHEN ON LEAVE AT 15, WILFREDS TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL.
LEFT FOR FRANCE WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT NO: 18 FIELD AMBULANCE, ERQUINGHAM, FRANCE, ON 27/10/1914, AGED 28.
HE WAS AWARDED THE 1914 STAR, BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTERS, JULIA (1881-1970), MARY LILY ((1890-1982), ELLEN (1880-1918), LOUISA (1882-1949), AND BROTHERS, JOSEPH (1891-1917), JAMES (1899-1979) AND JOHN (1895-1917), WITH HIS SISTER, JULIA WILKINSON RECIEVING THE LARGEST PROPORTION OF HIS WAR PENSION.
HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED ON HULL’S NORNABELL STREET SHRINE. Hull Daily Mail 08 November 1916.
HE IS ALSO RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE OSBORNE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (HDM 23/10/1916).
HE IS BURIED AT ERQUINGHEM-LYS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE.
HE WAS ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR. HIS BROTHERS, JOHN, AND JOSEPH RYAN, BOTH DIED IN 1917. ALL THE BROTHERS NAMES WERE LISTED ON THE TERRY STREET & THE NORNABELL STREET MEMORIAL. THEIR YOUNGEST BROTHER, GUNNER JAMES RYAN SURVIVED THE WAR.
If you have any more information, regarding the surviving brother James Ryan, please contact their Great Neice -Sue Hodgson [mailto:sue@dodge9.karoo.co.uk] who contacted 21/02/2017.
