Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookstration: =Edward Gordon Riggall.=] =RILEY, CHARLES LEONARD=, A.B., 223545, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =RILOT, JOSEPH CHARLES=, Private, No. 1619, 3rd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Frank Hammond Rilot, of 29 Haldon Road, Exeter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Charles Lee; _b._ Harrow, co. Middlesex, 17 Aug. 1891; educ. Tottenham High School, and after seven years' experience of farming in different parts of Devonshire, went to Australia in 1912 with a view to settling there. He had acquired some knowledge of Australian farming at Laxa, Waaia and elsewhere in Victoria when war broke out. He enlisted at Sydney, 15 Dec. 1914; left Australia for Egypt Feb. 1915, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and after four months continuously in the trenches there was killed in action at Lone Pine, between the 6-12 Aug. 1915; _unm._ =RINTOUL, DAVID WYLIE=, M.B., Ch. B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder _s._ of David Rintoul, of 26, College Road, Clifton, Bristol, M.A. (St. Andrews and Cantab.), House Master of Clifton College, by his wife, Catharine Barclay, dau. of W. W. Yool, J.P.; _b._ Clifton, 23 May, 1889; educ. Clifton College, and St. Andrews University, where he graduated as M.B. and Ch.B., in June, 1912; was House Physician at Bristol General Hospital from Nov. 1912, to Nov. 1913, after holding a temporary appointment at the Royal Infirmary, Dundee; and subsequently Medical Officer, Claybury Asylum; received a Lieutenancy in the South Midland Field Ambulance (T.F.), 1 June, 1913; and was gazetted to the R.A.M.C., 30 Jan. 1914; joined the 5th Field Ambulance, 2nd Division, on mobilisation, 4 Aug. 1914; was transferred as Medical Officer to the 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, and later to the 3rd Battn.; went to France, 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near St. Julien, during the first Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. following; _unm._ The commanding officer of the Battn. wrote; "He was brave and fearless, and most gallant. He had no idea what fear was--his one idea being to assist the wounded." [Illustration: =David Wylie Rintoul.=] =RIORDAN, JOHN=, A. B. (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1465), 134738, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =RIPLEY, CHARLES ROGER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late Sir Frederick Ripley, 1st Bart., of Acacia, by his wife, Katherine (63, Earl's Avenue, Folkestone), dau. of David Little, of Mount Royal, co. York, and grandson of the late Sir Henry William Ripley, 1st Bart., of Rawdon, M.P.; _b._ Scarborough, 13 Nov. 1888; educ. Scarborough School, and Cheltenham College; obtained a commission as Lieut. 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the York and Lancaster Regt., 13 June, 1913; posted to the 2nd Battn., 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Lille, 22 Oct. following, in a night attack; _unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. =RIPPER, ALLAN GILBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 2159, 1/5th Battn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Charles Ripper, A.R.C.A. (Loud.), Head Master Municipal School of Art, Lancaster, by his wife, Eveline Matilda, dau. of the late Herbert (and Maria Jane) Gilbert, and nephew of Professor William Ripper, D.Eng., D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science; _b._ Quernmore, Lancaster, 26 April, 1895; educ. Royal Grammar School there (Scholar) and Sheffield University (Storey Exhibitioner), where he had been for 12 months when war broke out. He at once left the University and joined the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.) in Sept. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, was promoted L.-Corpl in April, and was killed in action near Verlorenhoek, 8 May, 1915, while attempting to remove a wounded comrade to a place of safety. Buried on the battlefield. Major Bates, 2nd in command of the regt., at a Public Recruiting meeting at Lancaster, said "There was no man braver than any other, all were equally brave, but he would like to mention one gallant little chap from the Lancaster Grammar School, L.-Corpl. Ripper, a cheery fellow, always smiling and the pluckiest lad he had ever met. He went up to his mate to try to succour him, but in so doing he also 'went West.' He had not left his country poorer but richer." In 1911, he won the "Grey" Gold Medal for chemistry, and in July of the following year obtained his matriculation certificate, passing the Oxford and Cambridge Higher Certificate Examination in 1913. [Illustration: =Allan Gilbert Ripper.=] =RIPPER, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 169635, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =RIPPON, WILLIAM ROBERT=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12206, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =RISHTON, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4400), S.S. 103387, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =RISK, ROBERT=, Private, No. 8/278, 14th South Otago Coy., Otago Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of David Risk, of Kelso, Farmer; _b._ Kelso, Otago, New Zealand, 25 Sept. 1893; educ. Public School there, and Tapanui High School; joined the 14th Otago Territorials in 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt, 16 Oct. following; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 May following; _unm._ Buried there. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service. He was interested in all sport, and was a member of the Kelso Football and Athletic Clubs. =RIXON, FREDERICK ERNEST=, A.B., J. 14975, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =RIXTON, GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 187637, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ROBATHAN, DOUGLAS PARKER=, Capt., 1/5th Battn. The Welsh Regt. (T.F.), 5th _s._ of the late George Beckett Robathan, of The Gove, Risca, Monmouth, M.R.C.S., Eng., by his wife, Frances Elizabeth (Ovid House, Radyr), dau. of the late John Paull, of Brockley, Somerset; _b._ Risca, 28 Jan. 1888; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Cranbrook School, Kent; was a Mining Engineer at "Insoles" Colliery; joined the Monmouth Volunteers as a 2nd Lieut, in Jan. 1908; transferred to the 5th Welsh Territorials, April, 1908; passed the School of Instruction and obtained his certificate as a Musketry Instructor, 1909; became Lieut. 7 April, 1909, and Capt. 1 July, 1914; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; left England with the 53rd Welsh Division, 18 July, 1915, for the Dardanelles; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, 9 Aug., and was ki |