Name
William C Richards
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1916
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
753
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KNIGHTSBRIDGE CEMETERY, MESNIL-MARTINSART
C. 46.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born Camberwell, Surrey. Arrived Letchworth approximately 10 years prior to the war, lodged Mrs Topham 11 Ridge Rd. Lived 5 Moira Cottages, Letchworth, Herts.
At present we do not have sufficient information to positively identify this man. He does appears on the Regimental Memorial.
The photograph appearing here is from a newspaper article entitled "While the Herts. Regiment was resting after a spell of hard fighting" and is of the men from Letchworth. He names as Corp Marshall, who we assume to be the same man.
Wartime Service
Sent shell fuse cap home for Museum.
Killed in action by shellfire.
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
