EDDY, Jack Rylot
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 April 1894 |
| Home Town: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Wesley College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium Plot IV, Row C, Grave No. 4 |
| Memorials: | St Martins Hawksburn HB |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Divisional Ammunition Column, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Captain, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column awm_rank: Captain awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Father
Major George Albert Eddy of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, who was killed in action 12 February 1900 during the Boer War, at the battle of Hobkirk's Farm or "Pink Hill" near Rensberg.
Jack Rylot Eddy was only 6 years of age when his father was killed in the Boer War. He was one the first to enlist in Australia for WW1 during September of 1914. His mother said that Jack was a cadet at the age of 9 years, was a Boy Scout and in the Citizen Forces until the war started. He was Lieutenant at 18 years of age and left Melbourne for the front when 20 years of age. He left Australia as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Division Ammunition Column, Australian Field Artillery.
Jack Eddy served on the Gallipoli peninsular from September 1915, with the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade and was killed in action in Belgium, during the Passchandaele battles, 4th October, 1917. He was hit by an artillery shell near Zillebeke, and died within a few hours. Captain Jack Rylot Eddy was 23 years of age, and is buried in the Reninghelst New Military Cemetery Belgium. The widow and mother Cecilia Eddy, at that stage lived in South Yarra, Victoria.
In 1921 a memorial notice was placed in the Melbourne Argus by one of his mates,
EDDY.-In loving memory of Captain J. R. Eddy, 6th Battery, A.F.A., killed in action in Belgium, 4th October, 1917.
“He was always happy and cheerful,
With a heart that knew no fear:
He faced life’s battles and hardships,
For all he loved so dear.
One of Australia's best soldiers.”
This notice was inserted in the Argus 1921 by G.J. Hutt late of the 6th Battery, A.F.A.
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