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Born: 1 January 1875
Died: Between 6 August 1915 and 9 August 1915
"Served Boer War, British Army. Brother of Alfred (Joseph) Richards, VC, Lancashire Fusiliers, W Beach Gallipoli, one of six VCs won by the Lancashire Fusiliers "before breakfast", 25 April 1915. Also brother of Chaplain Robert Richards MC NZEF and C E (Charles Edward) Richards, 15 Field Company Engineers, AIF."
Source: Their Name Liveth for Evermore, Mosman's Dead in the Great War 1914-1918, George Franki, 2012.
Brother-in-law of Cecil Mervyn Hamilton. [JSB]
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- Main sources
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- Find War Dead (webpage)
- PERSONAL NOTES. OUR MEN OF GALLIPOLI. (newspaper article)
- NEW SOUTH WALES. WOUNDED. (newspaper article)
- NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED IN ACTION. (newspaper article)
- Death Notice [Catholic Weekly] (newspaper article)
- Death Notice [SMH] (newspaper article)
- ROLL OF HONOUR. (newspaper article)
- FIGHTING FAMILY'S UNIQUE RECORD. (newspaper article)
- Harry Richards (photograph)
- Commemorations
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- RICHARDS H. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial