Name
Galfrid Julian Riddle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
850347
Canadian Infantry
'C' Company, 3rd Bn., 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot XI, Row D, Grave 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of the Rev Albert J and Mary RIDDLE of Watford.
His parent’s marriage is proving elusive. Albert died 1931 in the St Martin’s, London, district aged 67; Mary died 22 January 1953 in Watford aged 85, and was buried 24 January in North Watford Cemetery.
Galfrid was born 22 August 1892 in either Cronstadt, Russia, or Baltimore, U.S.A., and educated at Colet Court and St Paul’s, School, London.
On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a merchant’s clerk aged 18, he lived in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
Wartime Service
He attested 23 March 1916 at St Catherine’s, Ontario: an insurance agent aged 23, 5’11” tall, C of E, of Grunsby, Ontario; next-of-kin his mother of Watford. He was previously reported missing, now killed in action. Information is available that he was killed by a machine bullet whilst taking part in the attack on Passchendaele Ridge.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
