New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37478

About

Born

19 January 1883

Parents

Mother

Jane Ryan

Father

Thomas Ryan

Settled in New Zealand

1904

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Auckland Electric Tramway Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 51

9 April 1934

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5550 107/0101180, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 37.

Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections: 31-R2467.

Anthony Byledbal, “John William Ryan (1883-1934)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/751