Parish Notes
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Photograph of Lt.Col. Ridge, 1812
St.George's Gazette Vol. XVII (1899) contains a photograph of Lieut. Colonel Ridge of 2nd Battalion of the 5th Regt. of Foot who was killed in the Peninsular War in the Siege of Badajoz 1812. The photo was taken from a Miniature in the Officers’ Mess.