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GEORGE EUSTACE RIPLEY
BORN NORWICH, 1864. BURIED HULL. SON OF REV. CANNON WILLIAM NOTTIDGE RIPLEY (1824-1912) & LAURA ELIZABETH PEARCE (1824-1899), OF NORWICH.
HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 14/05/1884, AGED 20 AND SERVED AS A LIEUTENANT IN THE NORTHAMPTON REGIMENT. BASED AT ALDERSHOT
HE JOINED THE FREEMASONS, ON 28/01/1892. - CABBELL LODGE, NORWICH, AGED 28.
HE MARRIED VIOLET JEANNE SARTORIS (1878-1973), ON 13/09/1896 AT KETTERING, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, AGED 32. HIS WIFE WAS AGED 18 AND FROM A WEALTHY NORTHAMPTON FAMILY. THEY HAD THREE WEDDING CEREMONIES WITHIN A WEEK. HE WAS NOW A CAPTAIN, OF THE 58TH REGIMENT. THEY LIVED AT EARLHAM, NORWICH.
HE SERVED IN THE SOUTH AFRICA WARS 1899-1902. TWICE MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES.
HE COMMANDED THE TERRITORIAL FORCE 1908-1914. BECAMES A MAGISTRATE IN 1912.
HE RE-ENLISTED IN OCT 1914 AND WAS GIVEN THE COMMAND OF THE NEWLY CREATED 6TH NORTHAMPTON REGIMENT, AGED 50. SERVED AS COLONEL AND TWICE WOUNDED. HE WAS INJURED AT THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916. A GERMAN SHELL EXPLODED NEXT TO HIM SHATTERING HIS ARM. HIS RIGHT ARM WAS AMPUTATED AT A FIELD BASE HOSPITAL. HE RETURNED TO LONDON WITH HIS WIFE WHO HAD COME TO VISIT HIM. HE DIED OF TETNUS WOUNDS, AND HEART FAILURE, ON 16/10/1916, AGED 52.
HIS PROBATE ADDRESS WAS 10 CARLTON TERRACE, MIDDLESEX. On the Probate Documentation his effects were left to William Ernest Ripley, Arthur Hugh Sartois, Edward Augustine Earle Bulcwer
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