Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

21/08/1914

Place of Enlistment

Canberra ACT

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Chelsea, London, England

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Railway employee. Employed at Royal Military College, Duntroon, as a clerk from 7 February 1913 to 15 August 1914.

Next of Kin

Son of Frank Henry and Bessie Madeleine Ridewood of Lympstone, Exeter, England

Burial Place

Belgium 15 Reningshelst New Military Cemetery

Service Number

276

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

Divisional Train Australian Army Service Corps AIF

Died (killed in action) near Ypres, Belgium, on 20 October 1917 aged 31 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 181, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

There is no Roll of Honour Circular for this man.

A member of the Federal City Sports Club, Ridewood was an Englishman who had been working as a stenographer and typist/ clerk at the Royal Military College since 1913 when he enlisted in August 1914. He served in Gallipoli, France and Belgium with the Australian Army Service Corps and the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. He was killed in action near Ypres on 20 October 1917 and buried in the Reninghelst Military Cemetery.

Description - height 6 feet, weight 166 pounds, chest 34-36½ inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair, Church of England, tattoo on left forearm.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Age - 21 March 1913