Photo: Dorothy Hall
In Ropery Lane Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
Thomas
Edward
Ridley
son of Leonard
and Margaret Ann
and husband of
Mary E. Ridley
of the Royal Signals
killed in action at sea
21st Sept. 1944
aged 39 years
Thomas Edward Ridley is remembered at Chester-le-Street on C105.05, C105.38, and C105.40
