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Military service
Service number:
C 77257
Age:
31
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Machine Gun Corps
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
October 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. E. 49
Additional information
Eldest son of Charles Edward and Jane Lee Richards, of Ottawa, Ontario, formerly of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England. Husband of Enid M.R. Richards, of Parksville, British Columbia. Educated at Bath College, Somerset.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, Military Cross on which is inscribed "Paul Richards, 2/Lt. Machine Gun Corps, Bullecourt, May 12, 16th, 1917. He also received a Second Award Bar on which is engraved: "N.W. St. Quentin, March 21st, 1918."
Digital gallery of Major Paul Richards
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Digital gallery of
Major Paul Richards
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 592 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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