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  • Alexander Hugh Ritchie †

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Born: 1 January 1895

Died: 21 July 1917

Killed in action when by a shell directly hitting his dugout in the front line at Messines.
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Name recorded
  • Alexander Hugh Ritchie
Service number
  • Service number 2636
Rank
  • Held rank of Private
Birth record
  • 1895 in Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Death records
  • Died on service
  • 21 July 1917 in Messines, West Flanders, Belgium
Address
  • 101 Cowles Road, Mosman, NSW, Australia
Relationships
  • Father - David Ritchie
  • Mother - Mary Dobbie
  • Brother - William Arthur Ritchie
Organisation
  • 33rd Battalion, AIF
Main sources
  • Find War Dead (webpage)
  • NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED. (newspaper article)
  • ON ACTIVE SERVICE. (newspaper article)
  • Ritchie Family [photographs] (newspaper article)
  • Alexander Hugh Ritchie (photograph)
  • RITCHIE Alexander Hugh : Service Number - 2636 : Place of Birth - Wollongong NSW : Place of Enlistment - Armidale NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) RITCHIE David (webpage)
  • First World War Embarkation Roll: Alexander Hugh Ritchie (webpage)
  • Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files: Alexander Hugh Ritchie (webpage)
  • Roll of Honour: Alexander Hugh Ritchie (webpage)
Commemorations
  • Ritchie, A.H. on the Scots Kirk Presbyterian Church Mosman Roll of Honour

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