| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of entrance to West Arm Kootenay Lake, E of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°34'23"N, 116°56'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 18 September 1980 on 82F/10, as submitted by Allison Holt, Balfour. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named to remember RCAF Sergeant Henry Percival Hartridge, R58086, from Balfour (northeast of Nelson); serving as a pilot with RAF 21 Squadron when he was killed in action 23 July 1941, age 21. Buried at Vlissingen Cemetery on the island of Walcheren, Netherlands, grave A. 14. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Partridge was born in India in 1919 and came to Balfour in 1929. He was Acting Squadron Leader, attacking German supply ships in Rotterdam Harbour when his Bristol Bomber was hit as it gained altitude; the occupants baled out, only to be hit by gunfire while coming down in their parachutes. (September 1980 correspondence with Miss Holt, and photographs & newspaper clipping provided March 1996 by brother, G.F. Hartridge, file K.2.50) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |