Private Percy Edward Richardson

Army Number : 2429

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Old Leake, Boston, Lincolnshire. Son of John Richard and Susannah Richardson, of Station Road., Old Leake, Boston. He was a clerk at the Great Northern Railway station on Outram Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted 8th September 1914 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action by being shot in the head by a German sniper 11th April 1915, aged 20.

Buried/Commemorated : Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row E. Grave 55.

Private Percy Edward Richardson
Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 30th April 1915.
Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Private Percy Edward Richardson

Private Percy Edward Richardson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.