John Riddoch Rymill (1905 - 1968)

Born 13 Mar 1905 in Penola, South Australia, Australia

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Died 7 Sep 1968 at age 63 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

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John Riddoch Rymill was born in March 1905, the younger son of of Robert and Mary Ellen Rymill wealthy Pastoralists of Penola in South Australia. His father died the following year in an automobile accident.^[1]

Educated firstly at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and later at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he studied surveying and navigation. He also took flying lessons at the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd, Hendon and courses at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge while in England. These were to prepare himself for his adventurous life as an aviator and explorer in Canada, Greenland and most famously the Antarctic.

In England with Anglican rites, on the 16 September 1938, John Rymill married Dr Eleanor Mary Francis, a geographer whom he had met during his initial stay at Cambridge.^[2] They returned to Australia and John took over his family's property at Penola. He would also become a Justice of the Peace and serve on the district council over comng years. He also served in the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in World War II as a Sub-Lieutenant.

63 year old John Riddoch Rymill died in Adelaide, South Australia on the 7th of September 1968 as the result of a car accident he'd had a few months earlier. He was buried at the New Penola cemetery with his parents. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and their two sons.

Sources

1. ↑ SAD MOTOR ACCIDENT. (1906, May 19). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 42. Retrieved May 9, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88123309
2. ↑ Marriage Registration: "England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005"
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   John R Rymill marriage to Eleanor M Francis registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1938 in Surrey North Eastern.

• South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: BIRTH: RYMILL, John Riddoch - gender: M - father: Robert RYMILL - district: Grey - book/page: 745/80 - registration year: 1905. from the Genealogy SA's Online Database Search. first accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search

• South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: DEATH: RYMILL, John Riddoch - gender: M - district: Adelaide - book/apge: 56A/7221 - registration year: 1968. from the Genealogy SA's Online Database Search. first accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search

• Father's Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 November 2021), memorial page for Robert Rymill (unknown–14 May 1996), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #201556455, citing Penola Cemetery, Penola, Wattle Range Council, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by J (contributor 50048377) .

• Grave record for Robert Rymill (Died: 14 1906), Billion Graves Record 33254997 Penola, Grey, South Australia, Australia. first accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://billiongraves.com/grave/Robert-Rymill/33254997

• John Béchervaise, Rymill, John Riddoch (1905–1968), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rymill-john-riddoch-8318/text14591, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 28 November 2021.

• Cemetery Search Wattle Range Council JOHN RIDDOCH RYMILL; Cemetery name PENOLA; Cemetery section P CEMETERY (MAIN ROAD); Plot 29N; Date of burial 11.09.1968; Age 64

See also:

• Wikipedia : John Rymill
• Wikidata: Item Q2750711, en:Wikipedia

Further Reading

• Rymill, John Riddoch (1905-1968) from the Freeze Frame — Scott Polar Research Institute website. first accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/resources/biography-of-rymill-john-riddoch

• John Rymill From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from John Riddoch Rymill). first accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rymill

• Lucy, Niall, John Riddoch Rymill 1905-1968. from Baldwin, Suzy (ed.), 1988, Unsung Heroes & Heroines of Australia, p.p. 206-208, Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd, Elwood, Victoria.

• INDEX TO SELECTED ANTARCTIC OBITUARIES APPEARING IN THE POLAR RECORD OF THE SCOTT POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

• Antarctic Party from the News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954) of Thursday 8 March 1934, Page 9. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128852628?searchTerm=%22John%20Riddoch%20Rymill%22

• Mr. J. R. Rymill Engaged. from the Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA : 1861 - 1954) of Thursday 30 December 1937, Page 1. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78004815?

• NEW JUSTICES from the Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) of Thursday 14 December 1939, Page 17. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92452159?searchTerm=%22John%20Riddoch%20Rymill%22

• DISTRICT COUNCIL NOMINATIONS from the Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA : 1861 - 1954) fo Saturdy 8 June 1940, Page 3. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78189223?searchTerm=%22John%20Riddoch%20Rymill%22

• NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. from the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973) of Thursday 18 December 1941, [Issue No.266] Page 2833. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232130627?searchTerm=%22John%20Riddoch%20Rymill%22

• Noted SA polar explorer dies from The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) of Monday 9 September 1968, Page 7. first accesed on TROVE on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131669909?searchTerm=%22John%20Riddoch%20Rymill%22

• Hickson, Sam, © Copyright 2013. John Riddoch Rymill from the ADELAIDIA fist accessed online on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/people/john-riddoch-rymill

• Family follows in pioneers footsteps from the Border Watch of 28/03/2019 retrieved on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://borderwatch.com.au/local-news/2019/03/28/family-follows-in-pioneers-footsteps/ © 2021 TBW Today Pty Ltd.

• Muller, Mark, 2019, Southern light from Issue #124 of the R.M. Williams Outback Magazine of April/May 2019. retrieved on the 28th of November, 2021 at: https://www.outbackmag.com.au/southern-light/