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Spr. Stanley Rymell
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.21st Feb 1917)
Stanley Rymell, Sapper 205328, served in the Royal Engineers and died age 21 in a Military Hospital on the 21st February 1917. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow Library and in Jarrow Cemetery. T.205. His medal card shows the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medal.
He was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Joseph Rymell of 65 Catherine Street, Jarrow and the late Alice Rymell nee Miller. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Joseph Rymell(49) widower, a steel worker and 6 sons. There is also a house keeper Margaret Chorley(36) widow. Three of the sons are working, Joseph(20), Frank(17) both Enginemen at the Steelworks and Stanley(15) an apprentice fitter at the shipyard. The three younger sons, Oswald(12), Lawrence(10) and Vincent (9) are all students.
Royal Engineers - It is difficult to establish where he served and what injury or illness led to his death in a military hospital without knowledge of the Company in which he served.
Update: From Stanley's Service Record on Ancestry we can see that he was an apprentice boilermaker aged 18 years and 5 months when he enlisted into the Durham Fortress Royal Engineers from 17/4/1913. He was 5 feet 3 inches in height and had good health and physique. He was in France19/9/1915-28/9/1915. He was admitted to a Field Ambulance with scabies on 25/9/1915.
By December 1916 he had transferred too IWTRE Corps (Inland Waterways & Docks). He was admitted to Hill House Military hospital in Kent with appendicitis on 21/12/1916 having been unwell for 3 months. Just prior to that his records state that on 10th December he would be "kept under close arrest whilst under hospital investigation as he broke out of isolation camp in barracks whilst suffering from infectious disease". On 18/2/1917 he was transferred to Military Hospital, Shorncliffe with increasing peritonitis symptoms and on 21st he sank rapidly and died at 10 pm.
L/Cpl. James Rymer
British Army 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
(d.10th July 1916)
Cpl. Norman Angus Rymer
British Army 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment
(d.10th May 1915)
Norman Rymer was was killed in action on the 10th of May 1915
Sjt. Robert Rymer MM.
British Army 150th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:North Ormesby, Middlesbrough
(d.10th Apr 1918)
Robert Rymer was an apprentice pork butcher prior to the war. He joined the Yorkshire Regiment (4th or 5th Battn) with the service number 1800. He transferred to the 150th Machine Gun Company in 1916 and this was renamed 50th Battalion M.G.C. in 1917.
I was told by the son of a friend of Roberts who survived the war that he was apparently he was a bit of a boxer; during the war one man tried to goad some of the men into fighting him by throwing around pair of boxing gloves, until Bob picked them up and gave him, a 'good hiding'. There was also a rumor that he turned a machine gun on some German prisoners when he realised his younger brother (James) had been killed at the battle of the Somme in 10th July 1916. There is a line in one of his letters to his sister Meg, where he says the 'tarts' thought he was a bit of a hero when they saw his 'little bit of ribbon' which was obviously his M.M. ribbon.
His niece, who I spoke to in the early 80's, remembers going to see Robert off at Middlesbrough railway station on his last leave, she also remembers him singing a song called 'Moira my girl'. He was 24 years old when he was killed in action. His father never got over the loss of his two sons and died a short while afterwards.
Sgt. Robert George Rymer
British Army 4th Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Bridgwater, Somerset
(d.6th July 1916)
Robert Rymer served with the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards during WW1. He died on the 6th July 1916, aged 24 and is buried in La Brique Military Cemetery No. 2 in Belgium. He was the son of Joseph William and Rhoda Ann Rymer, of Fairfield, Stogursey, Bridgwater, Somerset.
Pte. David Ross Ryrie
British Army 9th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Montrose
(d.28th Aug 1916)
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