Consett Carre RIDDELL DSO, VD, MID*

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RIDDELL, Consett Carre

Service Numbers:	Officer, V5716
Enlisted:	10 August 1914, South Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	Volunteer Defence Corps (VIC)
Born:	Elsternwick, Victoria, 5 January 1887
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Melbourne Grammar School, Trinity College, Melbourne University
Occupation:	University Graduate
Died:	Toorak, Victoria, 2 June 1953, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gisborne Cemetery MEMORIAL ID 194136131
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World War 1 Service

10 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, South Melbourne, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
1 Jun 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Major, Officer, 12th Field Company Engineers

World War 2 Service

27 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, V5716, Volunteer Defence Corps (VIC)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

LIEUTENANT RIDDELL.
Lieutenant C. C. Kiddell is a platoon commander of the 6th Victorian Battalion. He held the rank of second lieutenant in the University Rifles of Melbourne, and was welcomed in Egypt by General Birdwood as a near relative. He is the son of Colonel Riddell, and was at the Melbourne Grammar School from 1901-1904. He afterwards entered Trinity College, and took the degree of bachelor of science at the Melbourne University.

"...Major Consett Carre Riddell DSO, commander of the 12th Field Company Engineers, 4th Australian Division, from 1916 to 1918. Born at Brighton, VIC, on 1887-01-06, Riddell graduated in Science and Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1913. He enlisted in the AIF on 1914-08-10 and fought at Gallipoli where he was wounded. He won the DSO at the Battle of Messines in 1917. After the war, he commanded the 29/22nd Infantry Battalion and later, during WW2, the army's Engineering Training Depot. In civilian life, Riddell joined the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in the 1920s and retired as the Chief Engineer for Rivers and Streams in 1942. He died on 1953-06-02. (Donor J. Riddell)" - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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