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| Full Name: | Michael (Mike) Hardwick Riddell |
| Service, Regiment, Corps, etc: | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
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| Rank: | Sergeant 1306083 Pilot |
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| War (and theatre): | WW2 |
| Date of Death: | 27 August 1942 |
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| Family Details: | Son of Donald Hardwick and Beatrice Mary Riddell of Anerley, London |
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| Home Department: | Board of Trade |
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| Cemetery or Memorial: | Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar (Plot 2, Row D, Joint Grave 5) |
Additional information and photographs:
The following recollections of Mike Riddell were provided in October 2000 by a Board of Trade pensioner.
"I joined the Board of Trade on 7 July 1937 and was posted to Finance Quartering (FQ) …. When most of the heavy bombing of London was over, the whole of FQ was evacuated to Tetbury Glos with our officers in Westonbirt School ….. Mike Riddell must I think have joined FQ sometime between mid-1937 and November 1940. He certainly came to Tetbury with the rest of us. I joined the RAF in February 1941, as did Riddell, and we were together at Babbacombe Reception Unit and … at the Initial Training Wing at Paignton …. We both went to MIAMI (pronounced MIAMA), Oklahoma, USA with others for flying training. The course lasted from June to November 1940 ….. At the conclusion of the flying training we lost contact ….. I heard from someone at a later date that Riddell had been killed flying Wellingtons in North Africa."
Photograph of the grave for Michael Hardwick Riddell in the Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar
Courtesy of Phil Jennett
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