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Military service
Service number:
652094
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
April 16, 1892
Death:
August 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 29.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Mary Ritchie, of Chippawa Hill, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Peter Ritchie
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Cénotaphe de Southampton
Peter Ritchie is remembered on the Southampton Cenotaph. This war memorial includes plaques with the names of men from World Wars 1 & 2. The WWI list is inscribed: "In grateful remembrance of the men of Southampton who fought and died in the Great War" and indicates that Peter Ritchie and four other men were from the Saugeen Reserve. Another man from the Saugeen Reserve, Pte. Daniel Nawash, also fought in the 18th Battalion Western Ontario Regiment with Ritchie, and died on the same day. Southampton is in Bruce County, Ontario. The Saugeen Reserve is on the shore of Lake Huron and is home to the First Nation Chippewa of Saugeen. This photograph was taken by Mr. Clive Freeman in the summer of 2002.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 491 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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