Name
George Ryall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TR/161742
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
53rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
North East Grave 606
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Underneath are the everlasting arms
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at 49, Bunyan Road, Hitchin and he was the son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ryall.
He was a boyhood friend of Harold Barker, they enlisted on the same day and died in the same hospital within 24 hours of each other.
Wartime Service
He was born in Potton in Bedfordshire, enlisted in Hertford and resided in Hitchin. His Regimental Number was TR161742 and he joined the army on the 23rd October 1918 and was stationed in St. Albans in the 53rd Battalion of the Regiment.
He contracted influenza whilst training at the Regimental Depot and was sent to St. Albans Military Hospital where he died of pneumonia. He is buried in Hitchin Cemetery Grave NE 606.
Additional Information
His Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone bears the additional inscription "Underneath are the everlasting arms".
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
