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• Eric Cecil Howard Ritchie †

confirmed

Name recorded

• Eric Cecil Howard Ritchie

Service number

• Service number 1377

Ranks

• Held rank of Private
• Held rank of Second Lieutenant

Birth record

• 1890 in Bega, NSW, Australia

Death records

• Died on service
• Killed in action
• 20 September 1917 in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium

Address

• Dimora, 20 Clanalpine Street, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - Evan Robert Evans Ritchie
• Mother - Cecilia Crawford Allan

Organisation

• 3rd Battalion, AIF

Main sources

• Find War Dead (webpage)
• Three members of of the 3rd Battalion wait for a billy to boil above Mackenzie's Steps in a gully on the Gallipoli Peninsula. [photograph] (webpage)
• Roll of Honour: Eric Cecil Howard Ritchie (webpage)
• On Active Service in Egypt LETTER FROM SIGNALLER E. RITCHIE (newspaper article)
• GALLIPOLI. STORY OF THE LANDING. Forbes Boy's Letter. (newspaper article)
• FROM THE FRONT. (newspaper article)
• LOCAL AND GENERAL. Role of Honor. (newspaper article)
• Bega's Roll of Honor. THE UNVEILING CEREMONY (newspaper article)
• Promotion. (newspaper article)
• War Cables. THE LATEST. [Killed in action] (newspaper article)
• Death Notice (newspaper article)
• War Memorial Dedications. [Bega} (newspaper article)
• [124th Casualty List] ILL (newspaper article)

Commemorations

• RITCHIE E. C. H. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial
• RITCHIE, E.C.H. on the Mosman Rowing Club Roll of Honour 1914-1918