Captain, later Major William Bernard Ryan, enlisted in the AAMC in 1915, and travelled with the Sea Transport Service as Medical Officer several times before being stationed in England.
He took advantage of the opportunity for further study in psychiatry while in England, and put this to use in his later career.
Peter Ryan tells the story of Major Ryan on The Empire Called website.
I have created a commemorative online database of the WW1 volunteers of Essendon and Flemington in Victoria, with a blog to support the website: see link below.
I have other websites and blogs which follow other interests.
Celebrating all our heroes
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This is the opinion piece I wrote for the Canberra Times; it appears in the
14 March 2013 edition of the paper. Success in life requires three things –
sho...
Private William Heyer of Upper Sturt
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William Heyer was the second and youngest son of William Heyer and Mary
Ann Heyer (nee Zachariah). He was born at Upper Sturt on 19 July 1893. The
family...
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