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RIDDER, John Christopher
(Service number 8/4006)

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Birth

Date 28 August 1892 Place of Birth Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Lochiel
Occupation Carpenter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin F. C. RIDDER (father), Lochiel, Invercargill
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 10th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date 4 March 1916
Transport Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From Wellington Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Carpenter; farmer

Death

Date 19 April 1931 Age 38 years
Place of Death Riverton
Cause Pneumonia
Notices Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, 21 April 1931
Memorial or Cemetery Otautau Cemetery
Memorial Reference Block VIII, Plot 6
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

John Christopher Ridder was born on 28 August 1892 at Christchurch, the third son of Frederick Christopher (Friedrich Christoph) and Anna Maria (née Rathgen) Ridder. John was educated at Rabbit Island and Central New Brighton schools before transferring to Waihaorunga School on its opening day in 1902. In 1903 he went to Waimate District High School. The family afterwards moved to Lochiel, Southland. A carpenter at Lochiel, John named his father as next-of-kin – F. C. Ridder, Lochiel, Invercargill. Private J. C. Ridder embarked with the Otago Infantry Battalion of the 10th Reinforcements on 4 March 1916, departing from Wellington for Suez, Egypt.

Wounded on 23 July 1916, 8/4006 J. C. Ridder of Invercargill returned home by the hospital ship “Maheno”, arriving in mid-December 1916. He had suffered gunshot wounds to the bdomen and part of the sciatic nerve causing drop right foot. In 1927 he married Isabella McNaughton. John Christopher Ridder died of pneumonia on 18 August 1931 at Riverton. After a service at the Otautau Presbyterian Church he was buried in the Otautau Cemetery.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [06 August 2021]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 August 2021]; School Admission records (Canterbury & South Canterbury branches NZSG) [07 August 2021]; Otautau Cemetery burial record [07 August 2021]; Dominion, 20 November 1916, Otautau Standard, 21 April 1931 (Papers Past) [07 & 09 August 2021]

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