Pte Charles Ryall 1 Irish Guards d.13/9/17

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: RYALL, CHARLES

Initials: C

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Irish Guards

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Age: 39

Date of Death: 13/09/1917

Service No: 2105

Additional information: Son of Richard and Annie Ryall, of Buffanagh, Fethard, Co. Tipperary.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: III. B. 36.

Cemetery: CANADA FARM CEMETERY

[Will O'Brien]

& the cemetery info

Cemetery: CANADA FARM CEMETERY

Country: Belgium

Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen

Location Information: Canada Farm Cemetery is located 8.5 kilometres north-west of Ieper town centre, on the Elzendammestraat, a road leading from the Veurnseweg (N8) connecting Ieper to Elverdinge and on to Veurne. From Ieper town centre the Veurnseweg (N8) is reached via Elverdingsestraat, then turning right onto Haiglaan. Veurnseweg is a continuation of Haiglaan. On reaching the village of Elverdinge the Steentjesmolenstraat, N333, leads towards Poperinge. 2 kilometres along the Steentjesmolenstraat lies the right hand turning onto Elzendammestraat. The cemetery itself is located 1 kilometre along the Elzendammestraat on the right hand side of the road.

Historical Information: Canada Farm Cemetery took its name from a farmhouse used as a dressing station during the 1917 Allied offensive on this front. Most of the burials are of men who died at the dressing station between June and October 1917. There are now 907 First World War burials in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

No. of Identified Casualties: 907

[Myrtle]

SDGW details

Born: Fethard, Co. Tipperary

Enlisted: Chester, Ches.

KiA

[museumtom]

I will be in Fethard in the morning, they have a great car boot sale there on a Sunday.

From;

The Irish Guards in the great war by Kipling.

From the 1st to the 4th of September they, with the 1st Guards Brigade were in support of the 3rd Guards Brigade which was in the line and sent up half their strength for carrying-parties every night. The line, swampy and overlooked by the high ground under Houthulst Forest to the north and North-east, consisted of posts in shell holes being improved only sufficiently to make them habitable. The standard of comfort in The Salient at that time was lower than on the Somme,where men were dying, at least, dry. All posts were elaborately concealed from overhead observation, for enemy aeroplanes roved over them, bombing and machine-gunning at large. The Battalion was lucky in its four days turn, it lost on the night of the 4th September 2nd Lt G.P.Bayd and four men killed and twenty three men wounded. Some of the other Battalions in support suffered severly from bombing raids, and all back areas were regularly raked over so that the troops might be worried by loss of sleep.

Thats all for the 1st to the 4th