Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 28/06/1915
- Place of Enlistment
- Queanbeyan NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Other Name(s)
- Known as 'Ted' but also nicknamed 'Coot' or 'Billposter'
- Place of Birth
- Mulligans Flat, Gungahlin ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Mulligans Flat, Gungahlin ACT
- Occupation
- Miner
- Next of Kin
- Son of Edward and Catherine Ryan (both deceased) and half-brother or step brother to ten others.
- Burial Place
29 Ypres (The Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 1994
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 19 Battalion AIF
Fate
Died near Passchendaele, Belgium on 6 November 1917 aged 22 years
Commemoration
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 89, Canberra ACT
The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Notes
Ted Ryan served on Gallipoli with the 19th Battalion but fell ill and was hospitalised. He arrived in France in March 1916 and shortly after was charged with drunkenness and leaving a fatigue party. He was wounded at Pozieres in July 1916 by poison gas and hospitalised in England with shell shock. He was charged twice with being AWL whilst in England before he returned to France in December 1916. However, he returned to England soon after with synovitis and laryngitis. Once again he went AWL for a short period before he returned to France for the third time in October 1917 and was sent to Belgium. He was killed by a shell while sleeping in a dugout near Passchendaele on 6 November 1917.
Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 142 pounds, ruddy complexion, dark brown eyes, black hair, Catholic.
Sources
AWM Roll of Honour Database
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Diaries of Ann O'Rourke, published in Narelle O'Rourke, A Country Nurse and Midwife: The life, career and times of Mary O'Rourke / Bowers, M.B.E. in the Queanbeyan District of New South Wales 1889-1973, Queanbeyan, N. O'Rourke, 1989, (p.57)
Peter Procter, Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan, Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (pp.278, 324 [for Edward Ryan's parents, James and Ellen]).
Valerie Bofinger, 'Ryan: from Moycarkey, Tipperary to Mulligans Flat NSW', 1999 (p.87)
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan/ Canberra Advocate - 8 June 1917