Enlisted: 25 June 1915
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Salters Springs, South Australia, 24 February 1896
Home Town: Cooke Plains, South Australia
Schooling: Cooke Plains School, South Australia
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Accidental (Injuries), Egypt, 1 July 1917, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Row B, Grave No. 155, Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt
Memorials: Adelaide Cookes Plains WW1 List of Honour, Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cooke Plains Honour Roll, Cooke Plains WW1 Soldiers Memorial Hall, Grange Public School Roll of Honor
Eric Bertram Ridgway enlisted with his brother, 1439 Corporal Hugh Kelly Ridgway, 9th Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia, 10 July 1919.
Eric was accidently wounded in the abdomen by the discharge of a mate's rifle. His brother Hugh was sitting beside him at the time and helped dress the wound and carry him to aid. Eric died 10 days later in a Casualty Clearing Station.
His sister, Doris Alice Ridgway was a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and left South Australia for Western Australia during late 1918 on a train. She contracted Spanish influenza during the journey and died in a quarantine station at Woodman's Point in Western Australia, 6 January 1919.
Enlisted: 25 June 1915
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Salters Springs, South Australia, 24 February 1896
Home Town: Cooke Plains, South Australia
Schooling: Cooke Plains School, South Australia
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Accidental (Injuries), Egypt, 1 July 1917, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Row B, Grave No. 155, Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt
Memorials: Adelaide Cookes Plains WW1 List of Honour, Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cooke Plains Honour Roll, Cooke Plains WW1 Soldiers Memorial Hall, Grange Public School Roll of Honor
Eric Bertram Ridgway enlisted with his brother, 1439 Corporal Hugh Kelly Ridgway, 9th Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia, 10 July 1919.
Eric was accidently wounded in the abdomen by the discharge of a mate's rifle. His brother Hugh was sitting beside him at the time and helped dress the wound and carry him to aid. Eric died 10 days later in a Casualty Clearing Station.
His sister, Doris Alice Ridgway was a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and left South Australia for Western Australia during late 1918 on a train. She contracted Spanish influenza during the journey and died in a quarantine station at Woodman's Point in Western Australia, 6 January 1919.
Inscription
Australian Light Horse
Gravesite Details
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Irene Ada Ridgway
1888–1933
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John Edward Keith Ridgway
1889–1951
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Merle Mitton Ridgway Trezona
1890–1966
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Staff Nurse Doris Alice Ridgway
1891–1919
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Staff Nurse Doris Alice Ridgway
1891–1919
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LCPL Hugh Kelly Ridgway
1893–1951
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Victor Mitton Ridgway
1897–1989
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Arthur Ridgway
1899–1899
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Wilfred Roberts Ridgway
1900–1964
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Gertrude Ellen Jean Ridgway
1908–1995
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