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Colonel '''Richard Kirby Ridgeway''' {{post-nominals|VC|CB}} (18 August 1848 – 11 October 1924) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.

==Biography==
Ridgeway was born on 18 August 1848 in [[Oldcastle, County Meath]], Ireland.

On 22 November 1879, he was 31 years old, and a [[Captain (land and air)|captain]] in the [[Bengal Staff Corps]], 44th Gurkha Rifles (later 1/8th Gurkha Rifles), [[British Indian Army]], during the [[Naga Hills Expedition]]. On that date, during the final assault on [[Konoma]], Eastern Frontier of [[India]], under heavy fire from the enemy, Captain Ridgeway rushed up to a barricade and attempted to tear down the planking surrounding it to enable him to effect an entrance. While doing this he was wounded severely in the right shoulder.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24843 |date=11 May 1880 |page=2968 }}</ref>

He later achieved the rank of [[colonel]].

He died at the age of 76 in [[Harrogate]], [[Yorkshire]] on 11 October 1924.

==See also==
*[[List of Brigade of Gurkhas recipients of the Victoria Cross]]

==Notes and references==
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'''Listed in order of publication year '''
*''[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]]'' (1981, 1988 and 1997)
*{{cite journal|first=Brian D. H.|last=Clarke|title=A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men|journal=[[The Irish Sword]]|volume=XVI|issue=64|pages=185–287|year=1986}}
*''[[Ireland's VCs]]'' {{ISBN|1-899243-00-3}} (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)
*''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999)
*''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514041055/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/yorkshir.htm Location of grave and VC medal] ''(West Yorkshire)''
*{{Find a Grave|11792219}}

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