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==Biography== Ridgeway was born on 18 August 1848 in [[Oldcastle, County Meath]], Ireland. He was commissioned into the [[British Army]] on 8 January 1868, and promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 14 February 1870.<ref name=Hart00>Hart′s Army list, 1900</ref> ===Victoria Cross=== On 22 November 1879, he was 31 years old, and a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|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> ===Later career=== He was appointed [[assistant adjutant-general]] of the [[Peshawar Division|Peshawar district]], part of the [[British Indian Army|Punjab Command]], on 29 April 1895, and was promoted to the rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] on 8 January 1898.<ref name=Hart00 /> After an extended furlough back home, he resigned in early 1900, and did not return to India.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS169272954/TTDA |newspaper=[[The Times]] |publication-place=London |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=26 March 1900 |page=10 |issue=36099 |access-date=2025-03-19 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> He died at the age of 76 in [[Harrogate]], [[Yorkshire]] on 11 October 1924.
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