Army Number : 3918

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He resided at 10 Bagnall Cottages, Bagnall Road, Old Basford, Nottingham. He enlisted in March 1915 at Nottingham, went to France 8th March 1916 and was killed in action 24th June 1916.

(Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows Rylands on the headstone)

Buried/Commemorated : Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row F, Grave 23.

Private Ryland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Leodegarius Church War Memorial, Old Basford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.

His 2 brothers Private Charles Ryland 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and and Private Percy Ryland 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry also fell in the Great War