Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Riddle. His father until his retirement was on the Uppingham postal staff. Prior to his enlistment he had been a silversmith, initially he joined the Leicestershire Regiment, but then transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. and went to Aldershot for training, after a year or so he was drafted to the Military Hospital at the Curragh, Ireland, where he stayed until the outbreak of war. Early in August 1914 he was attached to the Hussars, and embarked for France on the 15th of that month, and was involved in the Battle of Mons and the famous retreat, during which he lost his unit and was picked up by another company of the Hussars, with whom he remained. Eventually he was attached to the 3rd Cavalry Field Ambulance. He died of pneumonia. Other sources show his place of residence as Uppingham, Rutland.