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a Soldier of the Border Regiment / Remembered with Honour

Douglas Farish Ridley

Military
Rank	Captain / October 1916 Lieutenant / 2 February 1915
Company	A Company / October 1916 ^[1]
Battalion	6th Border Regiment ^[2] / 11 October 1915
Theatre(s) of War	France and Flanders Gallipoli / 11 October 1915 ^[2]^[3]
Battles	Battle of Messines / June 1917 ^[4] Battle of the Lys / April 1918
Decorations	Military Cross ^[2]^[5] Citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry in action. He displayed great courage and determination when in charge of a covering party, continually repelling superior numbers of the enemy until the working party which he was covering was withdrawn.^[6]
Mention in Dispatches	Gazetted / 25 September 1916 ^[7]
Personal
Full Name	Douglas Farish Ridley
Born	11 February 1893 ^[8]/ Martindale, Westmorland
Education	Nelson School / Wigton, Cumberland
Nationality	English
Remembrance
Casualty Type	Survived the War
Died	6 October 1940 / Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England ^[8]
Age	47 Years
Cause of Death	Traffic accident whilst on duty with 6th Essex Battalion of the Home Guard ^[9]
Resting Place	Martindale (St. Peter's) Churchyard Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Coordinates	Latitude: 54.56451 / Longitude: -2.87403
Media
Websites	Captain Douglas F. Ridley, M.C. (1893 – 1940)
Biography
We do not have any biographical information about this soldier. This is a dedicated remembrance page for Douglas Farish Ridley, a soldier of The Border Regiment (inc. being attached or transferred) during The Great War. Please consider helping this project by contacting us with any useful information OR feel free to include any relevant information here yourself by clicking on "Edit" above.
Images
Lieutenant Ridley Lieutenant Ridley (middle row, 2nd from right) Sidi Bashr, Egypt, 1916 Officers White, Prosser and Ridley Officers Fulton, Stiven, Ridley, Hood and May
References and notes
The information in our Rolls of Honour have been compiled using two primary sources: HMSO's Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. These have been used for consistency to ensure that any transcriptions are as accurate as possible, with the exception of discrepancies between the two sources and typos that occur from time to time. Additional sources, where used, have been referenced separately below. For soldiers that survived the war, their details do not contain the memorial scroll and are not listed in the Rolls of Honour. However, each individual has his own remembrance page to be remembered with honour. For the Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour a secondary and carefully researched source, The Lonsdale War Grave Project, has been used to fill in some gaps with information not available in the aforementioned sources. Permission has been kindly granted by the owner for use here. For further information about the fields used above see Notes and definitions for soldier remembrance pages.
↑ 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1916. ↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Medal Card of Douglas Farish Ridley The national Archives. Ref: WO 372/17/39. ↑ 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1915. ↑ 6th Battalion on the Western Front (1916-1918). ↑ Askham Remembers in Style Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. 14 November, 2014. Accessed 18 May, 2020. ↑ Douglas Farish Ridley Military Cross Citation Supplement to the London Gazette. 10 January 1917. p.462. ↑ Medal Card of Douglas Farish Ridley The National Archives. Ref: WO 372/24/52821. ↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Douglas Farish Ridley Find a Grave. Memorial ref: 199298729. Accessed 18 May, 2020. ↑ Captain Douglas F. Ridley, M.C. (1893 – 1940) Accessed 18 May, 2020.

[1] 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1916.

[na1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Medal Card of Douglas Farish Ridley The national Archives. Ref: WO 372/17/39.

[3] 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1915.

[4] 6th Battalion on the Western Front (1916-1918).

[5] Askham Remembers in Style Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. 14 November, 2014. Accessed 18 May, 2020.

[6] Douglas Farish Ridley Military Cross Citation Supplement to the London Gazette. 10 January 1917. p.462.

[na2-7] Medal Card of Douglas Farish Ridley The National Archives. Ref: WO 372/24/52821.

[find-a-grave-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Douglas Farish Ridley Find a Grave. Memorial ref: 199298729. Accessed 18 May, 2020.

[9] Captain Douglas F. Ridley, M.C. (1893 – 1940) Accessed 18 May, 2020.

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+File:Ridley, Douglas Farish (Lieutenant).jpg|Lieutenant Ridley
 File:6th Border Regiment Officers, Egypt 1916.jpg|Lieutenant Ridley (middle row, 2nd from right) Sidi Bashr, Egypt, 1916
+File:Lts White, Proser and Ridley (6th Border Regiment).jpg|Officers White, Prosser and Ridley
+File:Officers Fulton, Stiven, Ridley, Hood and May (6th Border Regiment).jpg|Officers [[Adam Fulton|Fulton]], [[Franks Watson Stiven|Stiven]], Ridley, [[John Wemyss Hood|Hood]] and [[Claude Boyle May|May]]
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