Edwin Gerald Ritchie
Rifleman 653555
3rd Battalion First Surrey Rifles
London Regiment
Division 24
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Edwin Ritchie was the husband of Minnie Elizabeth Clements Ritchie of 3, Watlington Street, Reading. He died on the 31 December 1918 aged 36 years. It has not benn possible to find further information about this man.
Sidney Herbert Baverstock
Driver T4/084595
Royal Army Service Corps
Division 40
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Sidney Herbert Baverstock died of wounds (gas) on the 25 April 1919. He was the husband of Annie M Baverstock of 116, Rupert Street, Reading. Sidney was born in Andover in 1878. Both the 1901 and the 1911 census have him living in Reading. In 1911 he was living in the same house as given at the time of the grave registration. He was father to three children, Dorothy 9, Herbert 8 and Mary 4 years. His occupation was given as biscuit mixer at Huntley and Palmers.
The grave number is 6582 and has a CWGC headstone.
Victor Leopold Stevens Bedwell
2nd Lieutenat
4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
Division 34
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Victor Leopold Stevens Bedwell was the son of the late Thomas Bedwell and of Mary Louisa Bedwell, of 52, Beechhill Rd., Eltham, London. Born in 1894 Victor had and older brother and sister; Edward lived until he was 90 years old and Constance until she was 98. In the 1901 census his father’s occupation is given as School Master and Clergyman (Church of England) The family are living at The College, Saham Toney, Norfolk. It appears that Thomas Bedwell was in charge of a small school of eleven boys ranging in age from 16 years to 7 years. Assissting in this task was an assistant schoolmaster and two servants. Victor was aged 6 years at the time and no doubt was also educated at the college with the younger children.
No 1911 information has been found for Victor L S Bedwell. However, the online Wisden on the Great War ‘The Lives of Cricket’s Fallen 1914 – 1918’ records that he was educated at St. John’s, Leatherhead and was a member of the cricket eleven in 1912 and 1913. It is also known that he was a Craven Scholar at Oxford University in 1915 and that the Bedwell Prize was founded at Exeter College, Oxford, in memory of his brilliant learning and personality.
Victor is commemorated on the family grave of his parents and grandfather. Victor was killed in action on 18 April 1916 during the fighting around the Somme and he has no known grave. He was 22years old. His name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing Pier and Face 1C and 2A.
The entry below shows the details of his estate upon his death.
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