Name
Walter Richardson
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
202808
Essex Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Hatfield Heath Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Walter Richardson was born 1885 in Notting Hill, Bayswater, Middlesex to George and Mary Ann Richardson.
They were living in Kensington on the 1891 Census where his father was a Coachman/Groom. By 1901 The family had moved to Cheshunt and were living in Church Lane and his father was a beer retailer (pub). On the 1911 Census he was living with his parents at Hatfield Heath, Nr Harlow, Essex and assisting his father who was landlord of the Fox and Hounds public house.
He married Grace Chapman in early 1918 in Bishop's Stortford and they had a daughter Kathleen Grace. They lived at 102 Dunmow Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
It is probable that he had been a member of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before war broke out with service no. 3156.
He enlisted at Sawbridgeworth initially into the Hertfordshire Regiment under service nos. 11150 and 270932, later transferring into the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He was killed during the final advance in Flanders when they began operations in the Lys valley, recapturing the ground lost in April the same year.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £19 and pay owing of £7 14s 11d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d payable from 17 March 1919.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
