Dudley Howard Ridout

Education and career Dudley Ridout graduated at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant on 30 June 1885. He was promoted captain on 1 October 1894. He served on the staff as an intelligence officer in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902,

He served in World War I and was transferred to Singapore Command where from 1915 to 1921 he was General Officer Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils there.

Legacy Ridout Row, the row of two terraces of eight small four roomed cottages with an outdoor courtyard on the ground of RMC, was named in honour of Dudley Howard Ridout's father, Captain Joseph Bramley Ridout. The Ridout Row was renovated and currently houses the Canadian Defence Academy headquarters.

Personal life

In 1904, Ridout married Maude Elizabeth Hutton, daughter of Charles Henry Hutton. They had a son, Colonel Dudley Gethin Bramley Ridout CBE (born 1906), who commanded 1/6 South Staffordshires in Normandy 1944, and a daughter, Estelle Wilmot Hutton (born 1911).