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Private BENJAMIN RIDGWELL

Service Number: 440095
Regiment & Unit/Ship

2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. E. 12.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Alice Ridgwell, of Napanee, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription GONE TO THAT HEAVENLY HOME ABOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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