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RYDER, Charles Edwin
(Service number 57753)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	9 February 1896	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date	5 May 1917	Age	21 years 2 months
Address at Enlistment	Landsborough Road, Timaru
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience	8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Charles RYDER (father), Landsborough Road, Timaru
Religion	Wesleyan
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 8½ inches. Weighte 140 lbs. Chest measurement 32-34½ inches. Complexion fresh. Eyes brown. Hair dark brown. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing & colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfcet movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No fits. Class A.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	33rd Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	13 November 1917
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	12 October 1919	Reason	On termination of period of engaement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 May 1980	Age
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Edwain Ryder was the only son of Charles Ryder and his wife Ellen née Roach.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 July 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5550 0101287) [27 July 2016]

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