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RICHARDSON, Allen Albert
(Service number 6/2465)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Care of Mrs Nutsford, Sophia Street, Timaru
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Allan RICHARDSON (father), St Kilda, Dunedin
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 June 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	4 April 1933	Age	36 yrs
Place of Death	Dunedin
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery	Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference	Block 20, Plot 124
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Allon Albert RICHARDSON was a son of Allan RICHARDSON. He left Timaru for Trentham to join the Reinforcements at the beginning of May 1915.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [06 September 2014]; Headstone image & burial record Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin (Dunedin City Council) [06 September 2014]; Timaru Herald, 5 May 1915 (Papers Past) [06 September 2014]

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