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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
163420
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
November 4, 1885
Tavistock, England
Enlistment:
July 29, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. J. 29.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Jane Richards, of Clifton, Bristol, England; husband of the late Myrtle Edith Thornton.
Additional citations
Military Medal
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. John Hedley Richards enlisted in the 84th Battalion C.E.F. on July 29th, 1915 in Toronto, Ontario. This article and photograph appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on December 7th, 1916. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Hedley Richards
Digital gallery of
Private John Hedley Richards
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Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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