DREDGE, Ronald Edwin George

Salerno War Cemetery, ItalyCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Ronald was born 1919 in Newport to Albert James & Gertrude Anna (nee WEEKS) DREDGE who were living in Niton around the time of Ronald’s death. In 1938 the family were living in 69 Regent Street in Shanklin.

Ronald, aged 23, was Killed in Action on the 14th of September 1943 & originally buried close to where he fell. His body was later exhumed & reburied at the Salerno War Cemetery in Italy by the 31st Graves Concentration Unit on the 18th of May 1944. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “LOVING MEMORIES WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN” alongside 1,850 of his Second World War comrades, 109 of whom remain unidentified.

Ronald is also remembered on Niton War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.