Person Sheet


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-)
Spouses:
Unmarried
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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