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Apr 20, 2015 · Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie commanded the British 8th Army during the Battle of Gazala. This battle ended with the loss of Tobruk and Ritchie, along with Claude Auchinleck, bore the brunt of Winston Churchill’s anger – the British Prime Minister called the surrender of Tobruk a “disgrace”. Ritchie was born in 1897 and educated at …
Dec 7, 2017 · Neil Ritchie finished fifth in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 4000 metres individual pursuit and twelfth in the track time trail. He also competed in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 10 miles Scratch and in the road race.
As a man who has been commentating motorcycle sport every year since he began in Taihape in 1982, Neil Ritchie has been at the centre of all motorcycling activities in New Zealand, working as one of the ‘backyard boys’, for over 36 years. Neil is certainly the voice of motorcycling in New Zealand, something which […]
Jun 14, 2023 · Restore Finance Chief Neil Ritchie steps down after four years (Alliance News) - Restore PLC on Wednesday said Chief Financial Officer Neil Ritchie will depart ...
General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, GBE, KCB, DSO, MC, KStJ (29 July 1897 – 11 December 1983) was a senior British army officer during the Second World War. Following Lancing and Sandhurst, Ritchie's military career started in 1914 when he was commissioned as an officer in the Black Watch. During the First World War he served in France, where he won the Distinguished Service Order in 1917, and in the Mesopotamian campaign where he won the Military Cross in 1918, for "a fine example of ...
Neil Ritchie Photography. 3,542 likes. Photographer from Ayrshire, Scotland. Focusing on outdoor photography, landscapes, seascapes
Apr 2, 2019 · Major General Neil Ritchie (center) addressing other officers in North Africa, May 31, 1942. Public Domain. As a result of the need to improve their supply lines, the British reduced their frontline troop strength in the area of El Agheila. Probing the Allied lines in January 1942, Rommel found little opposition and began a limited offensive east.
