45555 Private Thomas RICHARDSON

THOMAS RICHARDSON

Rank:	Private
Service Number:	45555.
Regiment:	1st Garrison Bn Manchester Regiment Formerly: 10970, Liverpool Regiment
Died	Wednesday 18th July 1917
Age	49
From	Hull, Yorks.
County Memorial	Wallasey
Commemorated\Buried	Fyzabad Cantonment Cemetery Grave\Panel Ref: Plot B. Grave 1124.
Country	India

Thomas's Story.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour

Vol. 3. Page 230

Richardson, Thomas, Private, no. 45555, 1^st Battalion (63^rd Foot) The Manchester Regiment. 3^rd son of the late Gardner Richardson, by his wife, Jane. Born Hull, Yorkshire, 28 March, 1868, educated Scarborough, was a butcher. Enlisted in August 1914, served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in India from May 1915, and drowned while on active service at Iyzabad, India 15 July 1917. He married at Liverpool, 7 April 1890, Mary Elizabeth (174, Wheatland, Lane, Seacombe) daughter of the late William Driver, and had four children. Walter Gardner, born 18 July 1896; killed in action. Annie, born, born 22 March 1891. Eliza, born 9 June, 1892 and Almena, born 14 April 1893.