His obituary in The Western Gazette, Friday 19th May 1939.
A BOER WAR VETERAN.
DEATH OF MR. W. R. KIDDLE.
....The death occurred at the Memorial Hospital, Bulawayo, South Africa, of Mr. William Richard Kiddle, of Sandown, at the age of 79.
....Mr. Kiddle was born at East Stour and went to South Africa with his wife and family in 1896 and settled at Kimberley, where he served in the Kimberley Town Guard during the Boer War. He joined the old Cape Government Railways and lived for many years in Beaufort West.
....In 1921 he was pensioned from the S.A.R. and went to Rhodesia with his wife to live with his younger daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. de Wet, of Ashallow Farm, Sandown.
....Mrs. Kiddle died in 1924. Mr. Kiddle is survived by two daughters, Mrs. T. M. Alport, of Marula, and Mrs. J. P. de Wet, of Sandown, and five grandhildren.
....A correspondent writes: "Mr. Kiddle was a member of the old East Stour family of that name, who carried on a large wheelwright business there for over a hundred years. Before emigrating to Africa with the late George Hopkins and Clifford Hinks (two local friends), "Bill" Kiddle was very well known and popular in the agricultural community, and his death will be regretted by many in the locality whose memories go back to the closing decades of the last century as the severing of yet another link with old Dorset and happier days."
