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Military service
Service number:
R/67554
Age:
27
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
239 Wing Base RAF
Enlistment:
August 12, 1940
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 3, 1942
Cairo, Egypt
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
2. D. 10.
Additional information
Son of Andrew and Margaret (nee Askin) Riddell, of Windsor, Ontario. Brother of Helen, Margaret, Grace, Anne, Winnifred and Flying Officer Robert Gordon Riddell, 401 Squadron, killed in action 5 October 1942. Warrant Officer I Riddell is also commemorated on the Masonic War Memorial in Malden Park, Windsor, Ontario.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell
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Newspaper clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 110 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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