Son of the Hon. Johann Friedrich Bernhardt Rissik (Administrator of the Transvaal), and Mrs. Rissik, of "Linschoten," Park St., Pretoria, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown and Trinity College, Oxford. Joined Oxford O.T.C. at outbreak of war. Gazetted 8th Bn. Middlesex Regt., Nov., 1914