Dr J C Ridgway

Dr J C Ridgway, RAMC, appears to have worked with the wounded in Dublin Castle during the Easter Rising and to have attended to the wounded James Connolly.

He suggests that a telegram was sent by the Prime Minister, Asquith, with a postponement for the execution of Connolly.

Dr J C Ridgway RAMC witness statement

He alludes to having avoided being involved in the execution of prisoners.

Not much other information found about him so far :

1901 Census - Ridgway family

Tempt Lt Joseph Chamney Atkinson Ridgway 14th January 1916

17th August 2023 edit

Links to Witness Statement and London Gazette updated.

Born County Waterford on 25th July 1879

Died Dublin 3rd March 1959

An item via Mick O'Farrell on Twitter re his diary coming back to Ireland :

https://twitter.com/MOF1916/status/1691856178601492932

Single and living in Woking, England in the 1939 register