RIDEWOOD, R. C.

Reginald Clifford Ridewood was a gifted but unpublicized composer and conductor whose musical career in the British Army ended prematurely with his death at the age of thirty-five. He was born in York, England, in 1907, and at the age of fourteen he enlisted as a Band Boy in the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment at Birmingham. When he became eighteen and was classified an Adult Musician, he signed up for the maximum enlistment in the Army. In 1930 Ridewood...