Background
Christopher Riddle, known as Jack, was born in Buckinghamshire on 4 April 1914 and was educated at Harrow School from 1928–1931.
Christopher Riddle, known as Jack, was born in Buckinghamshire on 4 April 1914 and was educated at Harrow School from 1928–1931.
Harrow School.
Air Force Riddle joined Number. 601 Squadron Royal Air Force, part of the Auxiliary Air Force in early 1938 and was called to full-time service in October 1939. On 27 May 1940, over Dunkirk, Riddle probably destroyed a Me110.
He shared a Me110 on 11 July and a Do17 on 4 September.
He was promoted to Flight Lieutenant on 4 October 1940. In January 1941 Riddle was posted to Number.
10 Group Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force Box) as a Sector Controller. He was mentioned in dispatches in March 1941.
He was promoted to Squadron Leader on 1 December 1941.
Later in the war he was in the Far East at Headquarters Air South East Asia Command, in Ceylon and later Singapore. Riddle was released from the Royal Air Force in 1946 as a Squadron Leader. Riddle was later with an international trading group and his main work was buying Baltic timber for the Australian market.
Riddle later had his own textile company.
He was involved with the Billy Fiske Memorial Window at Boxgrove Priory. Jack Riddle died on 8 August 2009, aged 95 in Chichester.
He was a member of White"s club in London.