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Lance Corporal John J. Ryan
Reg. No. 38 |
| Service Summary |
| 2-Sep-1914 | Enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment. |
| 11-Nov-1915 | Wounded by sniper fire and shrapnel while with British Mediterranean Force, Suvla, Gallipoli. |
28-Nov-1915
to 1-Mar-1916 | Invalided to England. |
2-Mar-1916
to 30-Nov-1916 | Assigned to the depot at Ayr. Saw action at the Somme and Ypres. |
| 30-Nov-1916 | Wounded. |
6-Dec-1916
to 17-Jul-1917 | Invalided to England. |
| 17-Jul-1917 | Once again assigned to the depot at Ayr. |
| 18-Jul-1917 | Discharged due to wounds and embarked for Newfoundland. |
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| John Ryan (standing), Edinburgh, 1916 |
Cast of Characters
St. John’s
Major Franklin
England
Lord Roberts
Major Craig
Colonel DeBurton
HRH and HerRH
Brigadier General Allison
Lord Kitchener
Sister Hale, C4 Ward, Wandsworth Hospital, London
Captain and Mrs. Stevens, "representing the Association"
Unknown Sgt.-Major "Jim" at Newton Park School, Newton-on-Ayr
Unknown surgeon at Wandsworth Hospital who
operated on nerve in his hand
Unknown Austalian soldier at Brooklands, Weybridge,
Surrey February, 1918 fond of quoting Shakespeare
Dr. Tom Smith, Brooklands, Weybridge
George Mozart, the mimic
Scotland
Sir William McKinnon
Harry Lauders Recruiting Pipers
Unknown Canadian students at the University of Edinburgh
Malta
Fellows, a soldier from Glasgow who died at Floriana hospital,
Malta in late 1915
France
Sir Alymer Hunter Weston, commander 8th. Army Corps
Unknown man selling fried chips on the main road from
Poperinghe to Elvendinghe
Unknown orchard owner. Elderly male in Corbie City
Unknown doctor at the 11th. Stationary, Scottish Branch, Rouen
Australia
Colonel Ryan of the Australian Medical Corps
Italy
Unknown Canadian who served as American Vice-Consul in Naples
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Unknown members of the
Newfoundland Regiment |
Comrades-in-Arms
England
Seaforth Highlanders, Ft. George, Scotland
Aboard the Megantic
Royal Warwickshire Battalion headed for the Sudan, August, 1915
Egypt
Unknown Australian soldiers, Cairo, September 1st, 1915
Unknown Australian soldiers, Heliopolis, September 5th?, 1915
involved with small whiskey theft
France
The Yellow Bands, Training grounds, Rouen
29th. Division(also fought at Gallipoli)
86th. Brigade
2nd. Royal Fusilers
1st. Lancashire Fusilers
1st. Royal Dublin Fusilers
16th. Middlesex Regiment
87th. Brigade
2nd. South Wales Borderers
1st. King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1st. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st. Border Regiment
88th. Brigade
4th. Worcestershire Regiment
1st. Essex Regiment
2nd. Hampshire Regiment
List of Locations
CANADA
St. John’s
Training camp in Pleasantville
Halifax(pre-explosion)
ENGLAND
Devonport
Plymouth
Exeter
Patney Junction
Salisbury Plain Training Camp
Devizes
Pond Farm Camp
Bustard Camp
Lark Hill
Salisbury city
London
Waterloo Station
King’s Cross
Wandsworth Hospital (image 1, image 2)
Madame Tousands Wax Works
Kingston
Richmond Rd.
Victoria St.
Whitehall
Trafalger Sq.
Oxford St.
the Palladium
Corner House(Lyon’s)
unknown tea shops
Hyde Park
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Aldershot
Badajoz Barracks, Wellington Rd.(Line?)
Aldershot Station
Gibralter
Southampton
Weybridge, Surrey
Brooklands Convalescent Home
unknown photo shop
unknown river
the Thames
the Broadwater
River Wey
Shepperton
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh
Waverly Station
Perth
Inverness
Fort George
Fort George Station
Ardesier
Dalcross Castle
Moray Firth Seaplane Hangars, Moray Firth
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh
Prince’s St., Leith Walk, South Bridge and High St.
Haymarket Rink, Edinburgh
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
Marine Gardens, Portobello
Forth Bridge, Firth of Forth
Queensferry
Leith
Stob’s Camp, Hawick
Camp for German military and civilians
Newton-on-Ayr
Newton Park School
the Esplanade
Barry Camp
Carnoustie
Broughty Ferry?
Monifieth
Dundee
Tay Bridge
Firth of Tay
Liverpool
IRELAND
Belfast
FRANCE
Bapume
Church tower
Rouen
11th. Stationery, Scottish Branch
Acheux
Englebelmer
Beaumont Hamel
Mailly Wood
La Toque
Beauval
Corbie City
Dongueville Rd.
unknown orchard
Guedicourt
Thiepval Wood
Longueville road
Montauba road
Bernafy Wood
Ginchy
Ginchy Corner
Grovetown Casualty Clearing Station
BELGIUM
Ypres
Menin Rd.
the Ramparts
Rue DeLille
St. Martins
unknown church, shell through right roof
and fallen plaster on altar
Elvendinghe
Chateau
main road to Popenighe
Popenighe
MALTA
Valetta
Floriana
Malta hospital
GREECE
Lemnos Island
EGYPT
Alexandria
Cairo
Abbyssia
Giza
the Pyramids, the Dead City, the Citadel and
the Palace of the Sultan
Heliopolis
TURKEY
Suvla Bay
Gallipoli
ITALY
Naples
US Vice-Counsels Office
On the Seas
The ship photos should be of wartime vintage. Including any exterior
changes such as camoflage paint, armaments or riggings.
Ausonia
Florizel
Justicia
Kildonan Castle (Hospital ship at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli)
Megantic
Mauretania
Prince Abbas
Soudan
Any ships of the First Canadian Contingent that the Florizel joined
October 4th,1914 off the coast of Newfoundland.
Unknown ship transporting troops from Southhampton, UK to La Havre, France on
or about April 12, 1916.
The Sinking of the S.S. Erik, 25-Aug-1918
In the early morning hours of 25-Aug-1918, an unknown German
submarine attacked the S.S. Erik off the south coast of Newfoundland.
After an initial shelling, the Germans took the crew aboard and sunk the
Erik. The next morning they were transferred to a Newfoundland
"banker" called the Wallie G.
Off the Coast:
Captain Lane, the Erik
First Mate, unknown
First Engineer, unknown
Chief Engineer, unknown
"Big Russian" sailor, unknown
Captain, the unknown German submarine
Captain George Moulton, Wallie G., Grand Bank
St. Pierre:
unknown British Consul, St. Pierre
Cafe De Midi, St. Pierre, France
The Ships:
S.S. Erik
S.S. Argyle
S.S. Cabot
Wallie G.
unknown German submarine
unknown American "banker" sunk off the coast of St. Pierre on August 25, 1918.
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| John Ryan (far left) at a 4-Oct-1975 reunion, 61 years to the day that the Newfoundland
Regiment sailed out of St. John's harbour. |
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| John Ryan at a reunion of the surviving members of the First Five Hundred, 1976. |
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