Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookforce sent against the Nyam Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 18 May, 1906]; Egyptian medal with clasp); (3) in the Sudan, 1906; took part in the operations at Talodi, in Southern Kordofan (clasp to Egyptian medal); (4) in the Sudan, 1908: in operations in the Blue Nile Province, then with force commanded by El Lewa Dickinson Pasha sent to punish the murderer of the Deputy Inspector and Police Commandant, who had been treacherously slain at Kamlin; and (5) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 22 Aug. 1914; was promoted temp. Lieut.-Col. 22 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 23 Jan. 1915, when returning across the danger zone, after inspecting his men in the trenches, while in temporary command of the Battn. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 22 June, 1915. He was _unm._ [Illustration: =George Julian Ryan.=] =RYAN, JOHN JAMES=, A.B., F.F. 3609, killed in action at Tsing-Tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet, while engaged in chasing the German destroyer S.90. =RYE, FREDERICK CLEMENT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1183), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =RYLANCE, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4190), 277713, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =RYLANDS, REGINALD VICTOR=, Capt. 1/7th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of Richard Walter Rylands, of Ashburn Lodge, Worsley, Manchester, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Isherwood, of Bolton; _b._ Eccles, 5 Nov. 1891; educ. All Saints' School, Bloxham, and Shrewsbury School, and after spending a short time in Germany, went to Manchester University, taking his LL.B. in 1912. While there he served his articles as solicitor with his father's firm, Messrs. Boote, Edgar, Grace & Rylands, of Manchester, Solicitors, and passed his final examination in June, 1914. He was three years in the Cadet Corps at Shrewsbury, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1/7th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 18 July, 1910, attained the rank of Lieut. 5 Jan. 1912, and received his Company, 26 Sept. 1914. Along with other units of the East Lancashire Territorial Division, his battn. went out to Egypt in the autumn of 1914, and for some time he commanded the detachment that guarded the important railway centre at Atbara, a position of great responsibility for a young officer of 23. He left Atbara, about Feb. 1915, for Khartoum and was later moved to Suez, going to the Dardanelles early in May, 1915, and was killed during a night attack at Gallipoli, 29 May, 1915; _unm._ Capt. Williamson wrote of him: "He has proved himself to be one of the finest officers that a regiment could have. You can well imagine the amount of grit in a man when he goes forward under heavy fire though badly wounded.... I say unreservedly that I am proud to be in the same regiment as such a man as that." Lieut. George Chadwick, of the same battn. wrote: "The battn. was ordered to move on the night of 28 May and dig new trenches which the Manchester Brigade were to man on the day of the charge. Your son was on the left, in command of half the Company. We advanced about 11 o'clock, with a full moon which was not to our advantage; we crept to within about 150 yards of the enemy's trench and started to dig in. A message came down the line that your son had been hit in the shoulder, a Sergt. that was near by gave him water and did everything that was possible, but the bullet must have got in to some vital spot, as he passed away in about five minutes. We put him to rest the next day in a grave in rear of our trench and put him a cross up made out of a periscope which had been broken by a sniper"; and A. E. Fawcus, Capt. and Act. Adjt. 1/7th Manchester Regt.: "On the night 28-29 May, B and D Companies of our Battn. were ordered to advance and dig ourselves in about 200 yards from the enemy's trenches; this meant advancing across the open under fire for a distance of about 170 yards. Your son was on the extreme left of our Company and trying to get into touch with the Battn. on our left, but as they had failed to reach their proper place he was unable to do so. Unfortunately the moon rose, and as we had no cover were easily seen by the enemy who opened a hot fire on us.... The section he was with consisting of about eight men were cut off from our next trench and we did not get connected with them for about 48 hours. I was receiving verbal messages from him up to about 2 o'clock on 29 May, 1915, and then I heard he was seriously wounded. Unfortunately we were entirely cut off from our lines behind, as the communication sap was only completed after 72 hours and he in turn was cut off from us so that we could give him no assistance. An hour or two later I received a message to say that he was dead. I afterwards heard that he died in five minutes and never recovered consciousness after he was hit. It is difficult to say whether he was hit once only or by a machine-gun. I regret to say that we could not bury him until the third day as on the day after he was killed a party attempted to do so and one man was immediately killed. His men told me he was slightly hit during the advance but this did not deter him from leading his men splendidly. The operation was a difficult one and our casualties were severe, but thanks to the bravery of the men and their officers was successfully carried out." A younger brother, 2nd Lieut. Harold B. Rylands, is now (1916) attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers, now in France. [Illustration: =Reginald Victor Rylands.=] =STOPFORD SACKVILLE, GEOFFREY WILLIAM=, Sub-Lieut., R.N.. 2nd _s._ of the late Col. Lionel Richard Stopford Sackville (Commanding 4th Battn. 1891-7), Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Constance Evelyn (Ecton, Northampton), dau. of Major George Gosling, and grandson of Sackville George Stopford Sackville, of Drayton House, co. Northants, M.P., J.P., D.L. [grandson of Rev. the Hon. Richard Bruce Stopford, 4th s. of James, 2nd Earl of Courtown, K.P., P.C.]; _b._ South Raglan Barracks, Devonport, 22 May, 1893; educ. St Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and the Osborne (1906) and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; served as Midshipman on H.M. ships St. Vincent, 15 May, 1911, to 14 Jan. 1912, Cornwallis, 15 Jan. 1912 to 29 Sept. 1913, and Invincible, 30 Sept. 1913 to 31 Dec. 1913; took 1st Class for Seamanship and did his three months course at Portsmouth in H.M. ships Victory, Excellent and Dryad; appointed Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Hampshire, 30 May, 1914, but never joined, being sent to Britomart Gunboat on arrival at Hong Kong; and on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. following, was with the rest of the crew drafted to H.M. Destroyer Ribble; served in that ship at the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; was severely wounded while superintending the landing of troops that day, and died 21 May following, in the Bombay Relief Fund Hospital, Ale |