ALDRIDGE, REGINALD JOHN PETTY DEVENISH, Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regt., son of the late Reginald Aldridge, of Poole, Dorset, Solicitor; b. Poole, co. Dorset, 7 Sept. 1877; educated privately and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. Degree, and won his blue for football, and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regt. 23 May, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 21 March, 1903, and Captain 1 April, 1910. In 1902 he was Instructor of Signalling at Kasauli, and in 1904 commanded a company of Mounted Infantry in Malta. He was attached to the West African Regt. from May, 1905 to Jan. 1908, being Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster from June, 1906, to Jan. 1908, and was Adjutant to the 2nd Royal Guernsey L.I. Jan. 1908, to Jan. 1912, when he re-joined his regt. at Woking. He went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed instantaneously by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914, while preparing to return to the trenches for the night. He was buried in the little churchyard at Troyon. He married in London, 5 May, 1908, Mabel Dulcibella (Broadlands, 2, Prideaux Road, Eastbourne), youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Padmore Noble, of 20, Palace Court, London, W., formerly Vicar of Childs Ercall, Market Drayton, and had two children: Reginald, b. (posthumous), 24 Dec. 1914, and Dulcibella, b. 24 Dec. 1909.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
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Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
ALDRIDGE, REGINALD JOHN PETTY DEVENISH, Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regt., son of the late Reginald Aldridge, of Poole, Dorset, Solicitor; b. Poole, co. Dorset, 7 Sept. 1877; educated privately and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. Degree, and won his blue for football, and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regt. 23 May, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 21 March, 1903, and Captain 1 April, 1910. In 1902 he was Instructor of Signalling at Kasauli, and in 1904 commanded a company of Mounted Infantry in Malta. He was attached to the West African Regt. from May, 1905 to Jan. 1908, being Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster from June, 1906, to Jan. 1908, and was Adjutant to the 2nd Royal Guernsey L.I. Jan. 1908, to Jan. 1912, when he re-joined his regt. at Woking. He went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed instantaneously by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914, while preparing to return to the trenches for the night. He was buried in the little churchyard at Troyon. He married in London, 5 May, 1908, Mabel Dulcibella (Broadlands, 2, Prideaux Road, Eastbourne), youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Padmore Noble, of 20, Palace Court, London, W., formerly Vicar of Childs Ercall, Market Drayton, and had two children: Reginald, b. (posthumous), 24 Dec. 1914, and Dulcibella, b. 24 Dec. 1909.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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