David
Charles
Ritchie
Born in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Ritchie
and Hannah Elizabeth (Baxter) Ritchie
Brother of
Emily Charlotte (Baxter) Power, Janet (Ritchie) Dickson, John Ritchie, Annie Friend (Ritchie) Stimpson, Thomas Ritchie, Agnes (Ritchie) Colehan, George Friend Ritchie, Albert Percival Ritchie, Royce Alexander Ritchie, Ruby May Christina (Ritchie) Heenan, Robert Fairlie Ritchie, Francis Richard Atkinson Ritchie, Alfred Hugh Ritchie, Norman Keith Ritchie, Margaret Cameron (Ritchie) Montgomery [half], James Cameron Ritchie [half], William Ross Ritchie [half], Jessie Cameron (Ritchie) Chittock [half], Alexander Kenneth Ritchie [half], Agnes Christina Ritchie [half] and Christina (Ritchie) Johnston [half]
Husband of
Kathleen Allen (Davies) Ritchie
— married
1916 in New Zealand
[children unknown]
Died
at age 82
in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Apr 2016
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Biography
Served in WW1 as a L/Corp (8/91) in the Otago Infantry Battalion, wounded at Gallipoli within the first two weeks after the landing (4th May 1915), he was shot in both legs. He spent time on a hospital ship, the Devanha then sent to Cairo and treated at the Military Hospital Citadel. He was discharged as medically unfit and invalided back to NZ on 9 June 1915. Total service 1 year and 299 days, 273 days overseas, mainly Egypt.
At enlistment he declared he was a labourer with the last employer being A Thompson of Outram.
He was 5' 6", 137 lb, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair.
He married Kathleen Allen Davies in 1916.
In died in Palmerston North in 1968, listed next of kin then as Mr N Ritchie, Dannevirke.
Sources
- NZ BDM
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