posted on 2024-01-12, 12:10authored byLest We Forget Project Team
Joseph Arthur Richards was born in 1893 in Kent. Before the war, he was a policeman from a relatively well-off family. His father was headmaster at an elementary school and his mother was sub-post mistress at the Post Office in Shustoke, Birmingham, where the family lived.
Joseph joined 1/8 Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a sergeant. One family member believed that Joseph was killed by a sniper, but the contributor was not sure if this was true. It is now known that Joseph was killed when the 25th Battalion captured Landrecies on 4 November 1918 (or 1917?). Joseph is buried in the British Cemetery at Landrecies (Grave A-31).
History
Name of contributor(s)
John Richards, great-great-nephew
Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to
Joseph Arthur Richards, Royal Warwickshire Regt (transferred divisions in September 1917). Service Number 4248.
Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place
1914-1918
Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place