Name
Robert Aldridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/06/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24218
Canadian Infantry
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
IX. H. 45.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial,
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware,
Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born in Jun 1889 in Trinity Road, Hertford son of Thomas and Maria Aldridge and was living in 2 Crane Mead Road, Ware in 1911. He was a railway engineer.
He married Rose Schoffield in 1911 in Ware and departed from Liverpool for Canada arriving on 12 May 1913 in Quebec on the Corsican. Rose followed him from Liverpool arriving in Quebec on 17 Sep 1913 on the Victorian.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 22 Sep 1914 in Valcartier, Canada. He was killed at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Phillip Aldridge who was killed in action on 26 Oct 1917 and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Philip and his brother Robert are also commemorated on the family grave in Ware Old Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF ROBERT THEIR YOUNGEST SON KILLED IN FRANCE JUNE 13TH 1915. AGED 27.NEW PARAGRAPH AND OF PHILIP, THEIR FOURTH SON KILLED IN FRANCE OCT. 26TH 1917, AGED 32.
“GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND.”
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
