Name Edward John Frances Ryan No.
VC Issue No. 1104 Awards VC
Regiment Australian Imperial Force, 55th (New South Wales) Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. RC Section
Gazetted 26 December 1918
VC Presented 22 May 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Plaque at Springvale Cemetery, Victoria Garden of Remembrance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memorial Plaque, on Boer War Memorial, Richmond Park, Tumut, NSW, Australia
Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ryan Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Peards Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial Wall, Ingleburn RSL, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia
By The Way…
His return to Australia was not a happy one, bad health, lack of work, struggling to hold down a job when one came along, he died in 1941 a broken man
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
