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In Memory of HENRY DENNIS SMITH-RYLAND
Captain
1 st/1 st, Warwickshire Yeomanry
who died on
Saturday 7 April 1917 . Age 26.
Additional Information:
Captain, 1st/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry. 5th Mounted Brigade, Imperial Mounted Division. Died of Wounds in the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, El Avish, Egypt on Saturday 7 April 1917. Age 26. The eldest son of Mr. C. A. Smith-Ryland, a Justice of the Peace and Edith Smith-Ryland of Barford Hill, Barford. He sustained gunshot wounds to his head, left shoulder and left thigh on Wednesday 28 March 1917, and later died from these wounds. Buried in the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. He is also commemorated on the Sherbourne War Memorial, the Warwickshire Yeomanry War Memorial, Warwick and on the Memorial Screen, St. Peter’s Church, Barford. Holder of 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Cemetery:
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Egypt
Grave or Reference Panel Number: F. 234.
Location:
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery is situated at Kantara East on the eastern
side of the
Suez Canal, 160 kilometres north-east of Cairo and 50 kilometres south
of Port Said.
Access to Kantara East is via vehicular or small passenger ferry from
Kantara West.
Kantara East is 30 kilometres north of Jsmailia on the main Ismailia-Port
Said road. The
cemetery is 3 kilometres by road from the ferry, on the northern outskirts
of the village.
The cemetery is open Saturday to Thursday, 07.30 to 14.30.
Historical Information:
In the early part of the First World War, Kantara was an important point
in the defence of Suez against Turkish attacks and marked the starting point
of the new railway east to-wards Sinai and Palestine, begun in January 1916.
Kantara developed into a major base and hospital centre and the cemetery
was begun in February 1916 for burials from the various hospitals, continuing
in use until late 1920.
After the Armistice, the cemetery was more than
doubled in size when graves were brought in from other cemeteries and desert
battlefields, notably those at Rumani, Qatia, El Arish and Rafa.
The Second
World War again saw Kantara as a hospital centre. No 1 General Hospital
was there from July 1941 to December 1945 and two others, Nos 41 and 92,
were there in turn for varying periods. One of the major allied medical
units in the area, No 8 Polish General Hospital, adjoined the war cemetery.
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY now contains 1,562 Commonwealth burials of
the First World War and 110 from the Second World War. There are also 341
war graves of other nationalities in the cemetery, many of them made from
the Polish hospital and concentrated in a distinct Polish extension.
Near
the entrance to the cemetery is the KANTARA MEMORIAL, bearing the names
of 16 New Zealand servicemen of the First World War who died in actions
at Rumani and Rafa, and whohave no known grave. In 1961, nearby Kantara
Indian Cemetery became inaccessible and it was decided that the 283 First
World War servicemen buried there should instead be com-memorated at Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery. Panels bearing the names of the dead were affixed
to the wall of the cemetery behind the Stone of Remembrance, forming the
KANTARA INDIAN CEMETERY MEMORIAL
Regiment, Corps etc.
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Household Cavalry
and Cavalry of the Line (md. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) |
Battalion/etc.
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Warwickshire Yeomanry |
Surname |
SMITH-RYLAND |
Christian Name(s) |
Henry Dennis |
Born |
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Enlisted |
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Residence |
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Died Date |
07/04/17 |
Rank |
CAPT |
Number |
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Died How |
Died of wounds |
Theatre of War |
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Supplementary notes |
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