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Lieutenant Colonel JASPER MYERS RICHARDSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

V Corps.

Date of Death

Died 30 March 1918

Age 68 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXVIII. F. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jasper Richardson; husband of Anne Richardson, of 49, Campden Hill Square, Kensington, London. Native of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription GOD PROVED HIM AND FOUND HIM WORTHY
  • N.B. Lt.Col. Jasper Myers Richardson is believed to be the oldest Commonwealth battle death during the First World War.
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