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Private D RIDLEY

Service Number: 3/8256
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 September 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY

I. E. 32.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of H. and S. C. Ridley, of Pen-y-Graig, Rhondda, Glam.
  • Personal Inscription NO ONE WHO LOVED HIM STOOD NEAR BY TO HEAR HIS LAST FAINT SIGH
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Buried or commemorated at

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1133
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