Family :

Education & Career :

Surgeon

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Captain Percy Brewster Ridge, R.A.M.C.(T.F.), of the 4th London General Hospital, died at Denmark Hill, London, of pneumonia, on March 12th, aged 33. He was educated at Queen's College, Cork, where he was senior exhibitioner, and graduated as B.A.O., M.B., and B.Cb. of the Royal University, Ireland, in 1906. After serving as senior house-surgeon of the Prince of Wales General Hospital and Cancer Hospital, and as pathologist to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest and to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, he became assistant pathologist and cutrator of the museum of King's College Hospital and lecturcr on morbid anatomy to the hospital medical school. He had only recently joined tlhe 4th London General Hospital as a Captain. Sources; BMJ 25/3/1916 King's College London Archives and Corporate Records Services - catalogue King's College Hospital Medical School Images KHMS/PH 1/1/67 [1910] Photograph of Percy Brewster Ridge (d.1916), Lecturer of Morbid Anatomy, King's College Hospital, seated in his laboratory, captioned with biographical information. Small. 1 item.

Probate RIDGE Percy Brewster of the Platanes Champion Hill and of King's College Hospital Denmark Hill both in Surrey died 12 March 1916 at the Platenes Administration (with Will) London 1 April to Margaret Ridge (wife of Edward Robert Ridge). Effects £2163 17s. 1d.

Masonic :

Listed as a Medical Doctor resident at 30 Welbeck Street, West London. The contribution record shows "Died March 1916."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley