Description
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars, Transvaal, SA 1902, Pte George Riddle, Johannesburg Mounted Rifles.
Officially impressed: “2429 Pte G. Riddle. Johannesburg M.R.”
Confirmed on the medal roll, for both clasps.
During the Boer War, George Riddle enlisted into the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles on 23rd January 1902.
As noted on his Enrolment Form, he was born in 1869 and was 33 years old on enlistment.
According to his South African death records he was born in Sydney, Australia.
He recorded his next of kin as “Mr G. Riddle” a relative living in Sancefield, Victoria, Australia.
After the war he remained in South Africa becoming an Engineer, by the time of his death aged 76 on 2nd February 1947 he was a “Retired Engineer” living in Kimberley, Cape Province.
Goerge left £50 from his £330 estate to the Ancient Order of Foresters.
An unusual thing about his life is that his wife Helen Dora Fowler was born in St Helena, the remote Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, and place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Exile and Death. The family looked to have gone South East to South Africa.
They married in Wynberg, South Africa during 1908 and had 2 children.
