Richard's Story.
Son of Rebecca and Richard Teague, from Birkenhead.Headstone picture added by Graeme Ainsworth
Birkenhead News 30 August 1919
A UNIVERSAL FAVOURITE
BIRKENHEAD SOLDIER DIES IN GERMANY.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Teague, 19, Charlecombe Street, have just received particulars of the death of their son Bombardier Richard Teague, who was attached the 136th Siege Battery, R.G.A., and was stationed on the Rhine.
The deceased soldier’s officer writes to the effect that he was overtaken with a seizure, and died shortly after at 11 Stationary Hospital, Germany, on August 17th. He was buried in the British Military Cemetery, at Duren, and the ceremony was attended by the whole battery. The coffin, covered with a Union Jack, was borne on a gun carriage, from the hospital, to the Cemetery. The service was conducted by the Brigade Chaplain, after which three volleys were fired over the grave, and the Last Post was sounded.
The following extract is from the officer’s letter to the bereaved parents :- “I cannot speak too highly of your son. As a non-commissioned officer he was respected by everyone in the Battery, while as a man he was a universal favourite and I can say in all sincerity that myself and everyone else in the Battery suffers a personal loss in your bereavement.”