Source: November 1915 Casualty.
Family Search: When Private William Henry Ryde was born on 28 May 1890, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, Urban Ryde, was 33 and his mother, Mary Fyfe, was 34. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as printer in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He died on 23 November 1915, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 25, and was buried in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
Possibly a victim of a German sniper.
Brother of Priscilla Ryde, of 808, Dovercourt Rd., Toronto, Ontario.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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