LIEUTENANT ROBERT WILLIAM RYALL
8TH GURKHA RIFLES
11TH OCTOBER 1915 AGE 23
BURIED: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
Lieutenant Ryall came from a military family, his father had been a Lieutenant Colonel in the 4th Gurkha Rifles and his grandfather, Major General William Ryall, had commanded the 8th Bengal Cavalry. Robert Ryall was educated at Tonbridge School and Sandhurst. He was dangerously wounded on 25 September 1915 when a shell landed at his feet whilst he was leading his men in an attack at Mauquissart during the Battle of Loos. He died in the base hospital at Etaples sixteen days later.