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Pte. James Bede Ritson
British Army 1/20th Btn. London Regiment
(d.27th Sep 1915)
James Bede Ritson, enlisted at Blackheath, London and served in the 1st/20th Battalion the London Regiment. He died on the 27th September 1915 and is remembered at Loos Memorial. His medal card records that he was killed in action and awarded the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
James was born in Jarrow 1894, son of Ernest George Ritson and the late Isabella Ritson nee Wright, stepson of Isabella Ritson formerly Norfolk nee Wright. In the 1911 census the family is living at 12 Eastdown Park, Lewisham with Ernest George Ritson (45) mechanical engineer at Ordnance Engineering and his wife Isabella Ritson (39) married 4 years. His son James Bede Ritson (16) a nursery gardener and her son Reginald Edwin Norfolk (16) a student, his son Ernest Ritson (13) and her daughter Maud Isabel Norfolk also 13 years old and both at school.
