David Rivolta

Rank 
Private
Regiment 
Hampshire Regiment
Date of death 
1 July 1916
Age of death 
19
Address 
1 Rose Terrace
Wanstead High Street
Wanstead
RED
Address source 
1911 Census
Local memorial 
Cemetery / Memorial 
France
Biography 

David Rivolta was born in 1897 to Alphonse P Rivolta and his wife, Mary (née Flemming). David’s father Alphonse was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and throughout his life had various jobs, including insurance agent, tobacco traveller and laundry worker. David was the second youngest of five children.

After the death of his mother in 1909, David and his younger sister, Mable, went to live with their Uncle Charles (a cycle manufacturer) and his family, at 1 Rose Terrace, High Street Wanstead.

David enlisted in the army on 14th December 1914, with the King’s Royal Rifles, although he was possibly transferred to the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He was killed in France on 1st July 1916 on the first day of the battle of the Somme. David was buried in the Sucrerie Military Cemetery in Colincamps, France.

Research by Redbridge Museum

Sources:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Ancestry.com