Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/01/1918

Date of Discharge

30/08/1919

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

28/06/1896

Place of Birth

Geelong, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Austin Godfrey Richardson (father), Prospect Road, Geelong, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

8 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Richardson entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates. He served in Egypt and Palestine from May 1918 until the end of the war when he was assistant Adjutant to the 8th Light Horse Regiment. Richardson was based at Duntroon when World War 2 began and served in New Guinea.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 168 pounds, chest 38 inches, Church of England.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)