John Risbridger

1923 — 1943
A brief biography

Ancestors


Risbrig — 1198 —
William de la Risebreage — 1276 —
John atte Rysbrugg — 1425
Henry Ryesbrigger of Albury — 1430 —
John atte Rysbrygge — 1461 —
William Rysbrydger — 1553
John Rysbrydger of Shere ±1520 — 1563
William Risbridger 1546 — 1615
John Risbridger 1579 — 1631
William Risbridger of Shere 1611 — 1645±
John Risbridger of Capel 1642 — 1695
Thomas Risbridger of Newdigate 1679 — 1736
John Risbridger of Charlwood ±1703 — 1772
Lashford Risbridger of Charlwood 1760 — 1806
Emery Risbridger 1793 — 1856
William Risbridger 1837 — 1894
Henry Risbridger 1880 — 1926±
John Risbridger 1923 — 1943
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John Risbridger


Son of Henry Risbridger and Emily Sarah Liddington. .

Born in 1923, the thirteenth year of the reign of King George V, and died aged twenty in the seventh year of the reign of King George VI

Trombone player


John or Jack as he was better known joined the Army as a bandboy and studied the trombone. He served with the South Staffordshire Regiment on the North West Frontier in India and at the outbreak of WWII was transferred back to the UK where the regiment was formed into the 1st Airborne Division. He was posted to North Africa in the Desert campaign and was attached to the glider division.

Invasion of Sicily

Jack was one of 252 men drowned in Operation Ladbroke, the invasion of Sicily in 1943, his glider being released too early and going down into the sea during the night time landings. He had attained the rank or Corporal. His body was never found.


MEMORIAL


Jack is still missing. His effects, including all his music, was buried beneath an apple tree in the garden of an alms house at Walmley, near Sutton Coldfield, now West Midlands.

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