Melita
Joseph
"Joe"
Riddell
Born in Kihikihi, Waipa, Waikato, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Brother of
Andrew Melita Walter Riddell, James Crighton Riddell, Leonora Margaret (Riddell) Butler, Andrew John Riddell MM, Janet Winifred (Riddell) Plane and Eileen Mary (Riddell) Cameron
Husband of
Lorna Bernice (Macduff) Fisher
— married
1934 (to 1944) in Ngatea, Auckland, New Zealand
Descendants 
Father of
Shona Susan (Riddell) Hodgson and [private son (1930s - unknown)]
Died
at age 33
in Wolfsberg, Kärnten, Österreich
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Mar 2015
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Biography
BIRTH: NZBDM: 1911/1553
MARRIAGE: NZBDM: 1934/5980
MILITARY: Served in WWII. Auckland Museum online cenotaph record with photo:[1]
DEATH: NZBDM: 1945/60425
Official cause of death was measles, a common official cause of death. Reports to family by fellow prisoners afterwards was that he died after being seriously assaulted after his last attempt at escape. Buried in Klagenfurt Commonwealth War Cemetery. Buried at KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY 2. G. 3. Austria
BURIAL:
Klargenfurt War Cemetery
Austria
See NZ War Graves Project Site [2]
Sources
- ↑ Personal recollection of events as remembered by Andrew Hodgson on 9 Jul 2021.
New Zealand birth deaths marriages.
NZ war graves project.
Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph.
Findagrave [3]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melita by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Melita:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melita by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Melita:
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~1.56%
Norm Riddell
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A267867 [compare], Ancestry member normriddell1
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~1.56%
Ainsley (Nicholson) Allouchery :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch RV9387104 [compare], Ancestry member Ainsley_Allouchery
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~0.78%
Brent Crighton :
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