#183 - Captain J A Ritchie and the End of the War
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
At a little after 11:30pm on Friday 14th September 1945, Captain John Ritchie of the Canadian Army was attacked on Bourchier Street by two British soldiers clutching half a brick. But why? This is a case less about the man who died, or the men who did it, but how a war had shaped and then broke them?
- Date: Friday 14th September 1945 at 11:30pm
- Location: Bourchier Street, Soho, London, UK, W1 (incorrectly marked in the press as Romilly Street)
- Victims: 1 (Captain John Alexander Ritchie)
- Culprits: 2 (Robert Blaine and Charles "Jock" Connolly)
- Keywords: WW2, AWOL, robbery, money,
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