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Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
- Date
- 1904-1926
- By
- Ryburn familyRyburn, Eric Middleton, 1893-1917
- Reference
- MS-Group-1796
- Description
Eric Ryburn, a law student at Otago University, sailed from New Zealand with the Third Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He served with the Otago Infantry Regiment and saw action at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front. On 14 July 1916 he was wounded and was hospitalised in England. When he was fit he undertook officer training and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant. Ryburn was killed in action at Ypres in Belgium, 12 October 1917.
Quantity: 15 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.18 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs S Robinson, Gisborne (on behalf of the Ryburn family), 2009
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- Format
- 15 folder(s), 1 volume(s), 0.18 Linear Metres, Manuscripts, Mss, typescripts and printed matter
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Rev Robert Ryburn - Letters from members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Date: 1917-1919
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-04
Description: Includes letters of sympathy re death of his son, Eric Ryburn, who was killed in action, 12 October 1917 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers
Date: 1904-1916
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-07
Description: Contains `Presented to Eric Ryburn, St Paul's Sunday School, Wanganui, 1907' removed from the front of the monograph presented to him; membership certicate for Band of Hope issued to Eric Ryburn, 18 Aug 1904; Ryburn's certificate of admission to membership of the Pesbyterian Church of New Zealand,12 Mar 1909 and two essays written by Ryburn, `India awakening, the people of India' and `The influence of education on Christianity'; Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Programmes for memorial services
Date: 1919, 1923
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-12
Description: Programme for memorial service in memory of fallen students, Burns Hall, Otago University, 20 July 1919 and programme for unveiling of war memorial window and brass tablet in Ross Chapell, Knox College, Dunedin, 25 Apr 1923 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Correspondence relating to Eric Ryburn's diaries
Date: [1917?], 1918-1919
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-02
Description: Letter to Ryburn's mother asking her to no longer allow extracts from his diaries to be published in New Zealand newspapers. Also two letters to Rev R M Ryburn re use of diaries of his late son, Eric Ryburn, in `The New Zealanders in Gallipoli', 25 Sep 1918, 16 Apr 1919 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms and typescripts
Papers relating to Eric Ryburn
Date: 1917, 1919-1920
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-05
Description: Personal effects certificate for Eric Ryburn, 19 Oct 1917; Presbyterian Church receipts for donation to Eric Ryburn Fund, 1919-1920 and letter from Rev J Comrie, General Treasurer, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand to Rev Ryburn re financial matters, 29 Mar 1920 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Extract from letters from Sergeant Ryburn
Date: 3-11 Mar 1915
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-14
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Papers relating to Imperial War Graves Commission
Date: [192-]
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-11
Description: `The graves of the fallen, a descriptive account of the work of the Imperial War Graves Commission' and `Ypres Memorial Church Fund', soliciting contributions to the fund Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Ryburn family - Correspondence
Date: 1915-1916
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-03
Description: Letters from Eric Ryburn to his mother; telegrams from Minister of Defence to Rev Robert Wyburn informing him his son had been wounded in action, Jul 1916. Also two letters to Rev Robert Ryburn, Feb and Apr 1916 from J W Ross, Otago Infantry Batallion and J Shaw? aboard No 1 Hospital ship in the Tasman Sea Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Eric Ryburn - Letters to parents
Date: 9 Apr, 18 May 1912
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-01
Description: Two letters written by Eric Ryburn from Knox College while he was a student at Otago University Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's war service
Date: 1916-1922
From: Ryburn family : Papers relating to Eric Ryburn's service in World War One
Reference: MS-Papers-9424-06
Description: Soldier's paybooks, 22 Dec 1915-21 Sep 1917; leave passes, 2 Apr 1916 and 20 Sep 1917; papers relating to Eric Ryburn's death and cessation of his pay and war pension claim form, Oct 1917 and correspondence from NZEF War Graves Committee re Eace of burial. Quantity: 1 folder(s).