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VC386 Richard Kirby Ridgeway
BORN 18 August 1848
DIED 11 October 1924 AGE 76
VC Won 22 November 1879 AGE 31
Place VC Won Khonoma, Eastern Frontier, India
War/Campaign Second Naga Hills Expedition
Name Richard Kirby Ridgeway No.
VC Issue No. 386 Awards VC CB
Regiment Bengal Staff Corps & 44th Gurkha Rifles
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland
Place Of Death Grand Hotel, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Lawnswood Crematorium, Otley Road, Adel, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Cremated Lawnswood Crematorium, Otley Road, Adel, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 15 October 1924
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Copse near Columbarium (area since cleared)
Gazetted 11 May 1880
VC Presented Registered post to Ireland as he was unable to attend presentation due to wounds received
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Retired from the army in 1906, with the rank of Colonel
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