Name
Philip Aldridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
67669
Royal Fusiliers *1
Posted to 2nd/3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.
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 1885 in Townend Street, Hertford son of Thomas and Maria Aldridge and lived in Trinity Road, Ware in 1901 and in 2 Crane Mead Road, Ware in 1911. He was a railway porter and then a gas engine driver on the railway.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 24190, 3rd E. Kent Regiment and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Robert Aldridge who was killed in action on 13 Jun 1916 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.”
*1 Probably more correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
