Name
Jack Rylot Eddy
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Australian Field Artillery
1st Div. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
IV. C. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
SO DEARLY LOVED SO TRULY MOURNED BY HIS MOTHER
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Jack Rylot Eddy was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of George Albert and Cecilia Eddy, of 50 Arthur Street, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. He was a cadet at the age of 9 years, was boy Scout and in Citizen Forces till war started.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 20 August 1914 and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Divisional Ammunition Column No., 3 Section. He was 20 years old when his Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on
He was promoted to Captain in the 1st division Artillery and was killed in action on 4 October 1917 at Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs Eddy, 50 Arthur St, South Yarn, Victoria, ordered his headstone inscription: "SO DEARLY LOVED SO TRULY MOURNED BY HIS MOTHER". Two first cousins were killed in France.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
