George Richardson

George Benjamin Richardson was the eldest son of of Benjamin and Emma; he was born in Blaxhall in 1888.
He emigrated to Canada sometime around 1914, probably aboard the SS Calgarian, which went on to be to sunk by a German submarine in March 1918 while serving as a converted armed merchant cruiser.

On the 13th of May 1916 he joined the 19th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force with whom he would have served in the battles of Thiepval and Le Transloy and Ancre Heights, but despite surviving those high casualty engagements his luck was soon to run out. On May 2nd 1917 while stationed near the French-Belgian border George fell victim to one of the Great War's less common killers when he was hit by machine gun fire from a strafing German plane.

He is buried in the La Targette British Cemetery, four miles north of Arras in north-east France.