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Military service
Service number:
195455
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Death:
July 16, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 11.
Additional information
Son of Alfred Rippingale, of Peterboro, Ontario. His brother, Stanley Horace, served in the same regiment, died on the same day, and is buried next to him.
Digital gallery of Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
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Family Photo
Benjamin Riggingale (right) with his brother Stan (left) both served with the 20 Battalion and where killed in action on the same day. Also in picture is their stepmother, Elizabeth, and their younger brother Dennis Fenn Rippingale. Woman in center not identified. -
Family Photo
Stan Riggingdale (left) and brother Benjamin (right) photographed with their younger brother Dennis Fenn Rippingale, their stepmother Elizabeth, and their father Alfred. -
Temporary Grave Marker
Grave markers of the Riggingale brothers. -
Grave Marker
We left a picture and toonie on his headstone in August 2017. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Alfred Rippingale
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 316 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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