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  • Richard Ryan (GC)
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  • Lieutenant Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan GC RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross, as was Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" they displayed when losing their lives while attempting to defuse a mine which had fallen on Dagenham in Essex on 21 September 1940.
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serviceyears
  • 1922
Birth Date
  • 1903-07-23
death place
  • Hoxton, London
Name
  • Richard John Hammersley Ryan
Birth Place
  • Rotherham, England
Awards
  • 30
death date
  • 1940-09-21
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abstract
  • Lieutenant Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan GC RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross, as was Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" they displayed when losing their lives while attempting to defuse a mine which had fallen on Dagenham in Essex on 21 September 1940.