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Commonwealth War Grave

The Grave of Percy  Richardson is a Commonwealth War Grave maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Name: Percy  Richardson
Service: Middlesex Regiment transf. to (180434) Labour Corps
service number: 71725
Rank: Private
Date of death: 09/11/1918
Age at death: 26
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Death Information

Name:
    Percy Richardson
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Death certificate for Percy Richardson
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Percy Richardson *
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Maiden name:
  
Date of Death:
    09 November 1918
Age at death:
   26
Date of birth:
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Place of birth:
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Gender:
    Male
Place of death:
    Stanford Road Military Hospital, Preston, Brighton
Usual address:
    South View, West Street, Newbury
Occupation:
   Private 399th Labour Corps. (Carpenter)
Cause of death:
   (1) Influenza (2) Pneumonia
Death certificate information
Registration year:
    1918
Registration quarter:
    December
Registration district:
    Steyning
Register volume:
   2b
Register page/folio:
    602
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Comments: 
Information Sources: Death Certificate, Free BMD

Burial Information

Name on burial register:
    Percy Richardson
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Age at death:
    26
Date of burial:
    14 November 1918
Abode at death:
(according to burial register)
   
Burial register information:
   
Book number: 1917
Page number: 022
Record number: 9773
Official at burial:
    T.W. Beck
     
Source of information:
   Burial Register

Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:
   Percy Richardson
Date of death:
   09 November 1918
Age at death:
   26
Gender:
   Male
   
Memorial type:
   4 kerbstones and Gallipoli stone
Construction Material:
   Limestone
     
Inscription:
   North kerbstone and Gallipoli Stone: In Loving Memory of Percy Richardson, died Nov.9th. 1918 aged 26 years./ 71725 Private P. Richardson Middlesex Regiment 9th November, 1918./South kerbstone: To the dear memory of our mother, Ellen Colton, died Nov. 25th. 1939 aged 82 years./ Widow of George Dyer Colton
     
Condition of memorial:
   Inlaid letters
Pattison location code:
   LSH(5)
Other Notes:
    
     
Date monument recorded:
   18 April 2018
Monument recorder:
   DL
 
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Other people list on this memorial

Ellen Colton

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

GOTM Percy Richarson
Article source:    FNRC
Date of source:    01 November 2021
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Private Percy Richardson (1891 – 1918) Middlesex Regiment and Labour Corps
Inscription on Gallipoli marker: 71725 PRIVATE P. RICHARDSON
MIDDLESEX REGIMENT 9TH NOVEMBER 1918
He was born on 5 December 1891 in Harefield, Uxbridge, into a Wesleyan Methodist family. His parents came from the West Riding of Yorkshire, living and working in the heavy woollen district of Dewsbury and Batley. Due to a decline in the woollen industry caused by prohibitive tariffs, his father found work at the United Asbestos Company in Harefield. By 1911 Percy joined his father at the factory and became a skilled carpenter.
After enlisting in October 1916 at Mill Hill, he was called up and posted with the rank of private to the 29th (Works) Bn., Middlesex Regiment. He then married Flossie Violet Colton from Newbury. He was later transferred in April 1917 to the 339th (Home Service) Works Company, Labour Corps.
On 2 November 1918, diagnosed with influenza, he was admitted into Stanford Road Military Hospital, Brighton. His condition worsened, and he died with his family by his bedside at the age of 26 on 9 November, two days before Armistice Day. His family brought him to Newbury for burial on 14 November.
He is commemorated on the Bell’s United Asbestos Co. War Memorial 19141918 at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Harefield.


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