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VC476 Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson
BORN 23 September 1872
DIED 15 December 1932 AGE 60
VC Won 5 July 1900 AGE 27
Place VC Won Wolve Spruit, Standerton (also Wolvespruit)
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson No.
VC Issue No. 476 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Forces, Lord Strathcona's Horse
Later
Now Lord Strathconas Horse, Royal Canadians, Canadian Army
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth 17 Leicester Street, Southport, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St James Cemetery, St James Road, Liverpool, Merseyside
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot 57679
Gazetted 14 September 1900
VC Presented 25 July 1901 by King Edward VII at St James' Palace, Pall Mall, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St James Cemetery, St James Road, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Southport Garden of Remembrance, Lancashire
Plaque at Royal Canadian Mounted Police Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
By The Way…
First member of a Canadian Regiment to be awarded the VC
Headstone erected 1994, not on exact location of grave
VC Held By
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
