Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Gunner W. R. Ridsdale, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (62279 Gnr. W. Ridsdale. R.A.) very fine

Five: Sergeant W. Ridsdale, Royal Artillery, who died in Normandy on 8 August 1944
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named condolence slip, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. B. M. Ridsdale, 2 Ellesmete Place, Ellesmere Rad, Leicester’, extremely fine (7) £100-£140

William Ridsdale was born in 1914 and served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. He took part in the Normandy campaign with 6th Field Regiment, which had landed on 7 June 1944, and was killed in action/ died in Normandy on 8 August 1944. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial, France.