Albert Edgar Ryan

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Unit at enlistment:

139 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps

Force:

R.F.C.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Commemorated at:

St. John's Anglican Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Paris Road, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Paris Road, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Grocery Clerk

Employer:

Foster’s Wholesale Grocery

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Wounded

BX August 3, 1918

Mr. Albert Ryan, Paris Road, has been informed by cable that his son, Lieutenant Albert E. Ryan of the Royal Air Force was wounded in Italy on July 29. Lieut. Ryan left Brantford one year ago last June and in October went overseas and joined the Imperial army. For three months he had been a flyer in Italy, where he was stationed between Patova and Verona. He was one of the few Canadian boys who helped in Italy’s big repulsing push against encroaching Austria. Lieut. Ryan’s friends knew that he just returned to Italy from 10 days’ leave in Scotland, but the details received are as usual, too meager to give any information of where he was when wounded, except to say it was in Italy.

Lieutenant Ryan was employed at Foster’s wholesale grocery before leaving for the front, and his many Brantford friends will watch hopefully for good news of him.