Kerridge William Rowntree Sergeant 4265226
Personnel Entry
Name Kerridge William Rowntree
Army number 4265226.
Rank Sergeant.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth 29/2/1908 in Tynemouth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Age 62 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers December 1927. Posted to the 9th Battalion. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Captured as a Prisoner of War 27/5/1940 at Acques, France. Registered missing 15/7/1940. Confirmed as PoW 19/8/1940. Released 8/6/1945. Repatriated to the UK. Completed Security Questionnaire.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade Not yet confirmed.
Promotions None known beyond Sergeant.
Wounded Not as far as is known. Suffered from Lumbago.
Prisoner of War Yes - Held in Schubin (Poland) June 1940 - February 1941, Schildberg, Poland February - March 1941, Gratz, Poland March - December 1941, Posen, Poland December 1941 - August 1944, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf August 1944 - February 1945, Hohenfels, Bavaria March - April 1945. PoW Number 3040. Sgt Kerridge was also at a series of working camps - Summerlanger, Poland July 1940 - February 1941, Kosten, Poland March 1941 - August 1944, Posen, Poland August 1944.
Died/Killed in action Died April 1970, Brighton, Sussex aged 62. Probate issued at Brighton 22/7/1970 to 24, Shanklin Road, Brighton, in the sum of £2613.
Home address Father - Harry Wenden Kerridge, mother - Ethel August Rowntree. Listed in 1911 Census as a Male patient in Islington Hospital aged 3. Married Gloria Cloris Scott (1910 - 1993) in Kingston, Jamaica 8/11/1933. In 1940 lived at 5, Silver Street, Bampton, Devon.
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We are grateful to Sgt Kerridge's granddaughter for making us aware that he had served in the Battalion and for providing family information.
