{"id":29527,"date":"2023-03-17T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=29527"},"modified":"2023-03-23T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:50:19","slug":"ryley-michael-vivian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/army\/ryley-michael-vivian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryley, Michael Vivian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Michael Vivian Ryley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lieutenant, Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.<br>45th Regt.<br>Service no: 174989<br>Died 25 Mar 1944<br>Buried Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar &amp; commemorated at Willesden Jewish Cemetery<br>Age 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Michael was born on 28 January 1919 in Willesden, Middlesex, with the surname Melinsky,  to Alexander Melinsky and Alice nee Chadwick and he had a younger brother Robert. Their father worked as a cigarette manufacturer and he died in 1925 at the age of thirty-five. Alice remarried in 1930 to Robert Ryley and Michael took his stepfathers surname. By 1939, Alice was divorced from Robert and in the Register she is listed as divorced and living with Frederick Francis, a licenced victualler, at the Kings Head public house in Kensington, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1937, Michael enlisted into the Royal Air Force with the service number 742623 and by 1941 he had transferred to the Army in the Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment). Michael died in Burma serving in the 45th Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Willesden_Section_MX_Row_21_Alexander_Melinsky2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"323\" data-id=\"29572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-700x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-700x323.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-250x115.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-1536x708.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-2048x944.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GBC_1921_RG15_06327_0363-120x55.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1921 Census<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"850\" data-id=\"29573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-700x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-700x850.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-250x304.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-1265x1536.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-1686x2048.jpg 1686w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TNA_R39_0827_0827J_002-1-120x146.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1939 Register<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Vivian Ryley Lieutenant, Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.45th Regt.Service no: 174989Died 25 Mar 1944Buried Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar &amp; 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