RITCHIE, Robert "Robin" Blackwood
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Penshurst, Victoria, Australia, 23 January 1894 |
| Home Town: | Penshurst, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, High Wood, Somme, Picardie, France, 20 July 1916, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Thiepval Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Captain, Officer, Unspecified British Units |
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Son of Robert Blackwood RITCHIE and Lilian Mary RITCHIE nee ROSS
Awarded the Military Cross
News has been received by cable that Lieutenant Robin Blackwood Ritchie, of the 2nd Cameronians, has been killed in action in France. He was only 22 years of age. He was the son of Mr. Robert Blackwood Ritchie, of Penshurst, who was for many years a member of the Legislative Council.
Intimating his intention of devoting the sum of £40,000 towards a memorial to his son, Captain Robert Blackwood Ritchie, M.C. who was killed in the Great War, a letter has been sent by Mr. robert B. Ritchie, of Blackwood, Penshurst to the chancellor of the Universty of Melbouren (Sir John MacFarland). Mr. Ritchie expresses the wish that £30,000 should be used to establish and endow a chair of economics in the Universty, and that the remaining £10,000 should be added to the funds of Trinity College, Melbourne.
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