Richardson, Ernest Henry
E. RICHARDSON
Ernest Henry Richardson
54630 Private, 83rd Training Reserve Battalion
57300 Private, 3rd & 10th Battalions, West Yorkshire Regiment
21728 Private, Clerks Company, Army Pay Corps
S/445269 Private, 2/8th Company, Army Service Corps
S/445269 Private, 44th Railhead Supply Detachment, Royal Army Service Corps
Born 13th February 1895 at March, Cambridgeshire
Son of Edwin (a farm labourer) and Eliza Ann (nee Blackmur); both of March, Cambridgeshire
Came to Scotter with his older brother Edwin Frederick (‘Fred’)
Became a grocer's assistant
Lived at West Street
Enlisted 19th February 1916 at Scunthorpe
Called up into the 83rd Training Reserve on 11th June 1917
Described as 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 103 pounds, Church of England
Transferred to the West Yorkshires on 23rd October and arrived in France on 6th November
Two weeks later suffered a ‘mild’ gun shot wound to the left forearm
Treated in the 2nd General Hospital at Le Havre
Returned to England on 27th November and stayed in hospital until 30th March 1918
Medical showed his left eye was ‘almost blind for many years’ and ‘glasses of no use’
Tested and proved to be a ‘very good’ clerk
That July transferred to the Army Pay Corps at York which proved unsuitable
In November joined the Army Service Corps at Prees Heath, near Whitchurch in Shropshire
Sailed from Southampton to Le Havre aboard S.S. Yale on 23rd November 1918
Joined the 44th Railhead Supply Detachment
Discharged November 1919
Permanent address given as 139 West End, March
Died in 1971 aged 76 in the March registration district