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• Name RICHARDSON
• Initials DB
• First name DOUGLAS BIRCH
• Place of birth Birkenhead
• Country Cheshire
• Family son of Mr. R. Richardson and of Mrs. Dunlop Anderson, 18, Ingestre Road, Oxton
• Education Gresham College, Holt and Liverpool university
• Profession engineer

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 29th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career To France on 10 December 1914;
  He went to the front with the Royal Engineers shortly after the outbreak of war; was invalided home in the following May. Later he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and returned to active service in March 1916.

Death

• Wounded Crashed after take off; flew with 6380 FE8
• Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
• Date of death 29 July 1916
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - A - 10

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