| Born |
August 17, 1896
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| Died |
May 4, 1916, Age 19
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| Force |
Air Force
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| Division |
7th Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps
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| Home Address |
44 Walmer Road
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Edward Ryckman was born in Toronto and attended King’s College School in Wimbledon, England, before returning to Canada and entering UTS, where he was a member of the rugby team and sat on the editorial committee of the Annals, the precursor to the Twig. In November 1915 he went overseas and attended the Aviation Schools at Shoreham and Beaulieu, passing first in his final exams before joining the Royal Flying Corps and going to the front in March 1916. While on an artillery registration mission near Poegsteert Wood in Flanders, he was shot down by the German pilot Wilhelm Frankl - the fourth of Frank’s twenty victories before his own death in action in April 1917. Ryckman is buried in the Halluin Communal Cemetery near the Franco-Belgian border. “Nothing he could have done in life is equal to what he wrought in death.”
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