World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Basil Hutton Richardson
Forename(s):
Basil Hutton
Surname:
Richardson
Initial(s):
B H
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment:
Durham Light Infantry, 2/8th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
31/05/1915
Aged:
19
Buried:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Germany
Service History:
Gazetted to the 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in December, 1914, & was attached to the 1/8th Battalion Territorial Force in April 1915, a week before the Brigade left England for foreign service.
Richardson was wounded on the 25 April, 1915, when the 8th Durhams, with other battalions, were thrown into the breach when the first German gas attack drove back the French & exposed the Canadian left flank.
He was officially reported killed on that date, but was afterwards found to have been taken prisoner, & died of wounds on the 31 May 1915, at Brunderhause, Paderborn, Westphalia. He was buried in the West Cemetery, Paderborn.
(Source: 'The Bond of Sacrifice'; Volume 2, January to June 1915; pp.392-393)
Background:
Born 29 March, 1896, at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, the son of R. Morris Richardson, & grandson of Edward Richardson, Cotfield House, Gateshead, County Durham, & of Dr. Edward Prest, Archdeacon of Durham.
Educated at Abbey School, Beckenham, & at Durham School, where he was in the 1st Football XV, & was Captain of Rowing.
(Source: 'The Bond of Sacrifice'; Volume 2, January to June 1915; pp.392-393)
Local Memorial:
Alnmouth War Memorial
