BORN HULL 1882. SON OF GEORGE & ELIZABETH RICHARDSON, OF 70 SHERBURN STREET, HULL. AN ASSISTANT SCHOOL MASTER.
HE ENLISTED IN WREXHAM, WALES. SERVED AS SIGNALMAN, 16185, THE 13TH ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 01/12/1915. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 11/07/1916, AGED 34. COMMEMORATED AT THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 21/05/1917. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
THIS WAS HIS HULL. PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £439 AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO FATHER HIS FATHER, GEORGE, WHO WAS A CORPORATION BUILDING INSPECTOR.
First name:
RICHARD WAITE
Military Number:
16185
Rank:
Signalman
Date Died
11/07/1916
Place died:
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
34
70 , SHERBURN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
