SIMONBURN - NORTHUMBERLAND
St Mungos Church
Private Ernest Edward REED 2378
Born: Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England
Enlisted: 29-2-1916, Inverell, New South Wales
Born: Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England
Enlisted: 29-2-1916, Inverell, New South Wales
Lieutenant Henry Quentin RIDLEY
Born: Wylam-on-Tyne, England Enlisted: 19-2-1916, Perth, Western Australia 48th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action: 12-10-1917, Belgium aged 34years Resting: Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium Son of Musgrave C. & Emily Kaye Ridley, of Burnside, Cranleigh, Surrey, England Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 146 |
Passchendaele New British Cemetery
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The Southern Districts Advocate (Katanning, W.A.) 28-11-1917
It is with regret that we have to announce - that Lieutenant Henry Quentin Ridley was killed in action in France on the 12th October. Mr Ridley enlisted as a private in, February, 1916, and proceeded, to Blackboy camp for training. He was successful in passing the N.C.O. school, and
left shortly after for Duntroon (N.S.W.) officers' training school where he gained his commission. He sailed for England in November of the same year, and was in the trenches for nine months previous to being killed. Mr Ridley was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and came to Western
Australia, in 1913, where he purchased a farming and sheep proposition near Broomehill. He was as popular, with the farmers of the district as he was with the men of his platoon. Mr Ridley came of a very fine old Northumbrian family.
Lieut Ridley, became heir presumptive to the fine property of Park End, on the' North' Tyne, in Northumberland, embracing some 30,000 acres, when his cousin, Charles Ridley, was killed, in action in France early in 'the 'war.
We regret Lieut. Ridley's ' death, and with his friends mourn ,for as fine type of English- or Australian soldier as the British empire can produce.' '
It is with regret that we have to announce - that Lieutenant Henry Quentin Ridley was killed in action in France on the 12th October. Mr Ridley enlisted as a private in, February, 1916, and proceeded, to Blackboy camp for training. He was successful in passing the N.C.O. school, and
left shortly after for Duntroon (N.S.W.) officers' training school where he gained his commission. He sailed for England in November of the same year, and was in the trenches for nine months previous to being killed. Mr Ridley was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and came to Western
Australia, in 1913, where he purchased a farming and sheep proposition near Broomehill. He was as popular, with the farmers of the district as he was with the men of his platoon. Mr Ridley came of a very fine old Northumbrian family.
Lieut Ridley, became heir presumptive to the fine property of Park End, on the' North' Tyne, in Northumberland, embracing some 30,000 acres, when his cousin, Charles Ridley, was killed, in action in France early in 'the 'war.
We regret Lieut. Ridley's ' death, and with his friends mourn ,for as fine type of English- or Australian soldier as the British empire can produce.' '