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Military service
Service number:
K/57646
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 14, 1923
Leeds, East Hartlepool, England
Enlistment:
July 3, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Albert and Olga Richardson, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John David Richardson
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private JOHN DAVID RICHARDSON is one of 18 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John David Richardson
Digital gallery of
Private John David Richardson
Digital gallery of
Private John David Richardson
Digital gallery of
Private John David Richardson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 109 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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