Date of birth:

May 3rd, 1918 (Ecclesall/Sheffield, South-Yorkshire, Engeland)

Date of death:

January 22nd, 1945 (Oud-Alblas/Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Dordrecht
Row: A. Grave: 16.

Service number:

120591

Nationality:

British

Son of Arthur Reid Richardson and Florence Richardson. Flight Lieutenant RAFVR, 127 Squadron. Before the war, he was a schoolteacher by profession; shortly after the outbreak of war, he joined the RAF. Initially a Hurricane pilot, he later switched to the Spitfire. Except for a failed landing in which he ended up upside down and a fire in his tent in which he suffered burns, he came through the war unscathed.

Things went wrong on January 22, 1945. He had taken off from ALG B79 near Woensdrecht in his Spitfire Mk XVI RR236 9N-E for an attack on an oxygen factory in Alblasserdam. He was probably hit by German anti-aircraft fire and his plane crashed several meters into the ground. In February 1946, the aircraft, still containing his body, was found by a British Missing and Research recovery team, and it was determined that it was Richardson.

Arthur Gordon Richardson was buried with military honors at the Essenhof cemetery in Dordrecht. His gravestone bears the inscription: ‘FROM THE RISING TO THE SETTING OF THE SUN WE SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER’.

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• Photo 2: Koos Winkelman
• - Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gordon Richardson | War Casualty Details 2635436 | CWGC
  

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