| Regimental number | 2204 |
| Place of birth | Emmaville New South Wales |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Telephone contractor |
| Address | Welling Grove, Glen Innes, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 23 |
| Next of kin | Father, T Ryan, Welling Grove, Glen Innes, New South Wales |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 17th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/34/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | Commissioned |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | 2nd Lieutenant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 17th Battalion |
| Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal 'Work on 2 March 1917.' Recommendation date: |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 25 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 84 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Timothy and Sarah RYAN, Farley, Wellingrove, New South Wales. Native of Strathbogie, Emmaville, Victoria |
| Medals |
Military Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 2nd March, 1917. Took over from Sergeant PEARSON when wounded and reorganised the bomb throwers. He threw bombs continuously for over two hours. By his coolness, courage and daring he kept the enemy in check. This was done after a nights heavy work consolidating strong points which had been gained.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 140 Date: |
| Family/military connections | Brothers: [2680] 2nd Lt Charles Francis RYAN, 45th Bn, killed in action, 7 June 1917; 3934 Pte Timothy Gross RYAN, 20th Bn, returned to Australia, 12 December 1918. |
| Other details | Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |