PAKENHAM-WALSH, Ridley

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Awards and Honours
  5. Notes
  6. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
29/04/1888
Place of Birth
Kilkenny, Ireland
Address (at enlistment)
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
School(s) Attended
Cheltenham College (England), Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (England)
Occupation
Soldier
Next of Kin
Mabel Pakenham-Walsh (wife)

Unit and Rank Details

Final Rank
Major
Final Unit
Corps of Royal Engineers (British Army)

Awards and Honours

Military Cross

Notes

Ridley Pakenham-Walsh joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1908. He was appointed as Instructor in Military Engineering and Surveying at the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 13 March 1914 and stayed until 17 June 1915 when he left for England to rejoin the Royal Engineers shortly after marrying Mabel Smith in Sydney. Pakenham-Walsh served on Gallipoli and on the Western Front.

Pakenham-Walsh remained in the British Army after the war rising to the rank of Major-General in 1939 and serving as Engineer in Chief to the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939-40. He commanded the British Army in Northern Ireland 1940-41 and retired in 1946. He died on 3 November 1966 in Surrey, England aged 78 years.

Sources

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
C.D. Coulthard-Clark, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1986'
AWM collection record : P02088.002

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Ridley Pakenham-Walsh, RMC c1913. From AWM image P02088.002.

Ridley Pakenham-Walsh, RMC c1913. From AWM image P02088.002.

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