In Memory Of

ALDRIDGE, JAMES ANTILL

Service Details
Age:
 39
Date of Birth:
 1875-07-26
Service No:
 1857
Rank:
 Corporal
Unit:
 5th Regt.
Unit 2:
 Midlandse Ruiters
Regiment:
 South African Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1914-09-26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Sandfontein
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 WARMBAD CEMETERY
Country:
 Namibia
Additional Information
Son of James Aldridge and Louisa Antill. Born Mortlake Surrey, England on 26 July 1875. Married in St Cyprians Church Kimberley in 1909 to Emma Elizabeth Sarah Aubrey who had come out from England to marry him. He was in the Cape Mounted Police and lived at Postmasburg Hay, Cape Colony. Father of Joyce b.15 Aug 1910; James Aubrey, b. 21 Dec 1911 and George, b. Aug 1914. There are memorials to James Antill at Mortlake Old Burial Ground (on his mother's grave - she died in 1879) and in St Margaret's Church, Twickenham.