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Military service
Service number:
442770
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
May 15, 1897
Whitehaven, Cumerland, England
Enlistment:
August 17, 1915
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
November 10, 1916
13 General Hospital, Boulonge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. D. 171.
Additional information
Son of William Edward and Mary Alice Richardson, of Fernie, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Leonard Richardson
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Memorial
War Memorial, Fernie and District, British Columbia. Dedicated by Lord Byng on May 24th, 1922. Inscribed: ERECTED TO PERPETUATE OUR HONOURED DEAD AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON IN THE GREAT WAR FROM FERNIE B.C. AND DISTRICT. -
Inscription
Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, British Columbia.
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Private Leonard Richardson
Digital gallery of
Private Leonard Richardson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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