Education & Career :

Harrow School 1882-84

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

23 November 1914 - 6 February 1915. As the armies of 1914 fought themselves to exhaustion they settled down by the end of the year to the realities of static trench warfare. During the winter, activity was mostly comprised of a series of small scale raids and attempts by the BEF to gain superiority over the battlefront. At the same time increasing numbers of Territorial battalions and replacements for the Regular battalions came into theatre and had to be trained and acclimatised to trench occupation. This period was further noted for the severity of the weather and the need to rapidly source and equip the troops with adequate winter and waterproof equipment, whilst improving the trench conditions. Miserable times.

Detail :

TRYON, Richard, Captain, 2/Kings Royal Rifle Corps Eldest son of the late Captain Richard Tryon (O.H.), late Rifle Brigade, of The Lodge, Oakham, and of Jane Anna Lucy, eldest daughter of the late General W. A. Johnson, M.P., of Wytham-on-the-Hill, Lincoln. Nephew of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B., A.D.C. to the late Queen Victoria,who was drowned in his flagship, the Victoria on June 22nd, 1893, while commanding the Mediterranean Fleet. Married, in 1894, Edith Campbell Watson, eldest daughter of William Clarence Watson, of Colworth, Bedfordshire, and leaves two sons. Captain Tryon was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1890. He retired in 1895, and was attached to the Reserve of Officers. In 1904 he joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry as Major. When the War broke out he was posted to the 6th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and at the time of his death he was serving with the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, on January 10th, 1915.

Masonic :

Founder member of The Foxhunters Lodge No. 3094 (warrant 1st March 1905. He joined from Studholme Lodge No. 1591, his mother Lodge (but from which he resigned in the same year). He was excluded from Foxhunters under Rule 175 in 1913 having been in arrears from 1911. The gap between the resignation of mother Lodge and joining Foxhunters means that there must be a membership of a third lodge which is, as yet, untraceable.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley