Thomas John RYAN

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Service Number:	2241
Enlisted:	6 January 1916
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Wilmington, South Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Broomehill, Broomehill-Tambellup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Broomehill State School, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Arsenical dermatitis, Egypt, France, 7 August 1916
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row M, Grave #. 132, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt, Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers la Boisselle, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broomehill War Memorial, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA

6 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
1 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 2241, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
1 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 2241, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle
7 Aug 1916:	Involvement Trooper, 2241, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2241 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1916-08-07

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Father Michael Ryan and and Mother Margaret Phillemina RYAN, living at Broomehill, WA.

Described on enlisting as 18yrs 7mths old; single; 5' 11: tall; 152 lbs; healthy complexion;
blue eyes; dark brown hair; Roman Catholic

6/1/1916 enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA

29/2/1916 appointed to 15th reinforcements/10th Light Horse

1/4/1916 embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses
as a Private in 10th Light Horse Regiment, 15th Reinforcement

26/4/1916 taken on strength of 3rd Training Regiment, Tel-el-Kebir

20/6/1916 sick to hospital
29/7/1916 transferred to 3rd Australian General Hospital - tonsilitis

7/8/1916 died of Arsenical dermatitis, at Abbassia, Egypt
buried in: 132 Section, Cairo British Cemetery

buried in: Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Row M, Grave No. 132

His name is located at Panel 8 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

Medals: British War medal (38998); Memorial Plaque and Scroll (320140)

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 20/5/2016. Lest we forget.