| Name |
Henry Akroyd "Chips" RIDGWAY, 2C2R, 234 |
| Birth |
1885, Barlaston |
| Birth Memo |
IoB 4Q1885 Stone 6b41 |
| Death |
13 10 1915, Ypres Age: 30 |
| Burial |
Loos British Cemetery |
| Burial Memo |
Grave: XVI. D. 13 |
| Father |
Edward Akroyd RIDGWAY, 233 (1846-1921) |
| Mother |
Susan MEAKIN, 232 (1860-) |
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| Notes for Henry Akroyd "Chips" RIDGWAY |
| Meakin Family Tree 260197: only child, annotated (d). Pauline's trees: "Killed 1915", "killed at Ypres". Known as Harry or Chips. History of 5th North Staffs 1914-1919 by Walter Meakin pub 1920: Capt, OC D Coy 1st/5th, DofD, killed in attack on Hohenzollern Redoubt Vermelles Flanders ("Hellfire Corner" see http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/terriers5.htm). Online250103: census1901. CWGC250103: casualty 562685. FRC270504: IoB. Ancestry210512: census1891. |
| Census |
| Census1891 2190/17/4: aged5, nephew at Westwood Manor Cheddleton w James Meakin (230), PofB Barlaston. Census1901: "Harry", aged15, student at Uppingham, PofB. |
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