BORN BEVERLEY 1893. SON OF HABBERSHAW RICHARDSON (1862-1917) & MARTHA RISPIN (1860-1922), OF BEVERLEY. BROTHER TO DAVID, JAMES, SARAH AND LAURA. WORKED AS A FARM WAGGONER AND LIVED AT FINKLE STREET, MARKET WEIGHTON. HE THEN WORKED FOR THE HULL RADIATOR COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS GUNNER, 1624. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 20/04/1915. SERVED AS A LANCE BOMBARDIER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. CAPTURED, HE DIED AS A GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR, ON 26/09/1918, AGED 25.
BURIED AT GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED WITH 46 EMPLOYEES, ON HULL’S IDEAL BOLIER AND RADIATOR COMPANY MEMORIAL, NATIONAL AVENUE, HULL.
HIS BROTHER, JAMES ROBSON RICHARDSON, DIED IN HULL, IN MARCH 1919, AGED 28. A DOUBLE LOSS FOR THEIR WIDOWED MOTHER. WHO HAD LOST HER HUSBAND IN 1917, AND YOUNG SON DAVID, AGED 16, IN 1901. SHE DIED IN 1922.
