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RIDDLE, Robert Arthur
(Service number 32383)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	02/04/1890	Place of Birth	Lake Pukaki

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Albury
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Robert RIDDLE (father), Albury, South Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	26 July 1958	Age	68 years
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Memorial or Cemetery	Glenmark Cemetery, Canterbury
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Arthur Riddle was the son of Robert and Isabella née Rennie) Riddle. He was educated at Albury and Chamberlain schools. Robert married Elizabeth Wilhelmina Evans in 1920.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [07 May 2017]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [27 January 2018]; Glenmark Cemetery headstone image (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [27 January 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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