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• William Arthur Ritchie

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Born: 1 January 1893

Died: 25 December 1974

Served at Gallipoli.

All photos (1)

Service number

• Service number 595

Birth record

• 1893 in Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Death record

• 25 December 1974 in Penshurst, NSW, Australia

Address

• 101 Cowles Road, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - David Ritchie
• Mother - Mary Dobbie
• Wife - May Brittain
• Brother - Alexander Hugh Ritchie †

Organisations

• 2nd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
• 1st Anzac Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps

Main sources

• RITCHIE William Arthur : Service Number - 595 : Place of Birth - Wollongong NSW : Place of Enlistment - Brisbane QLD : Next of Kin - (Mother) RITCHIE Mary (NAA file)
• William Arthur Ritchie (photograph)
• AUSTRALIAN LOSSES. 198th Casualty List. SYDNEY, Wednesday. (newspaper article)
• QUEENSLAND. ILL. (newspaper article)
• War Notes. (newspaper article)
• Ritchie family [photographs] (newspaper article)
• MILITARY MEDAL. [No documents in NAA dossier to support this story] (newspaper article)
• INVALID SOLDIERS. DISEMBARKING TO-MORROW. THE LIST. (newspaper article)

Commemorations

• Ritchie, W.A. on the Scots Kirk Presbyterian Church Mosman Roll of Honour