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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Wood Green
• Land London
• Family Eldest Son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Thomas William Richardson.

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career 6 Squadron, RFC (Abeele, Belgium - 2nd Corps Wing, 2nd Brigade)
  Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 A3643; observer;
  also served in the London Ir Rifles Regiment;
  to France on 9 October 1916

Death

• Wounded Contact patrol; the A3643 RE8 took off at 2.55 p.m., assumed to have completed the patrol, as it crashed on Lake Dickebusch, while firing at a practice target. After diving steeply towards the target A3643 pulled out sharply, broke up and dived into shallow water. The pilot, 2nd Lt Cato, also died.
• Type of wounds Drowned
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - G - 7

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