Kenneth Lovett RIDINGS

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RIDINGS, Kenneth Lovett

Service Numbers:	S29499, 416613
Enlisted:	26 July 1940, Southwark, SA
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	4th Division Supply Column
Born:	Unley, SA, 7 February 1920
Home Town:	Brooklyn Park, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Flying Battle, Atlantic Ocean, 17 May 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

World War 2 Service

26 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, S29499, 4th Division Supply Column, Southwark, SA
21 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416613, Adelaide, SA

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Rowland Bradshaw Ridings and Olive Elizabeth Jane Ridings, of Brooklyn Park, South Australia.

S.A. CRICKETER
MISSING IN
AIR OPERATION
Flying-Officer. Kenneth Lovett Ridings, former State cricketer, is reported missing as a result of air operations on May 17. Advice to this effect has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Ridings, of Allan avenue, Brooklyn Park.
Flying-Officer Ridings was State and West Torrens opening batsman. Recently it was announced that he had been selected to play in an All-Australia XI. against a team selected by P. F. ("Plum") Warner in England. Flying-Officer Ridings left Australia last August. He was the youngest son of the West Torrens cricketing family. Three brothers are in the Army.

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