RICHARDSON

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	John and Alice Richardson	Yes
Where born	Uttoxeter		Yes
When born
Address	Parents: 11, Burton Terrace, Uttoxeter, Staffs.	Yes
Spouse
Children
Employment Before Joining up	Messrs. Bamfords			2a
Where enlisted	Uttoxeter		Yes
Regiment	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes	Yes		1
Unit	1^st/6^th Bn.	Yes	Yes
Unit	‘B’ Company				1
Rank	Private	Yes	Yes	2a	1
Service Number	2498	Yes	Yes		1
Date of Death	13 October 1915				1
Date of Death	18 October 1915	Yes	Yes
Age at time of death	23	Yes
Where Killed or died	Loos – Hohenzollern Redoubt
Where Killed or died	France/Flanders		Yes
How he died	Killed in Action		Yes		1
Location of Grave or Memorial	Loos Memorial for the Missing Panel 103 to 105	Yes
Awards

Before the war he was employed at Messrs. Bamfords^[2a] and he was as popular in the works as he was in the offices^[2a]. News of his death was received with the deepest sorrow and regret^[2a].

His was a nature one could not help but love and admire. He had an earnest disposition, yet was always full of fun.

So, when his turn came to make history (and what glorious history!) we must be sure that he showed that same quality of fearlessness that was in evidence when engaged in his favourite sport of football, and the same determination with which, when cycling, he tackled the longest journeys or the steepest hills.

It is significant of the present Titanic struggle that both employer and employee should be found fighting side-by-side – and falling together. The military training had greatly developed and bronzed young Richardson, and a few months ago, writing home from the base, where he was invalided for a little while, he related that one day when passing an officer’s tent he saluted the occupant, who evidently did not recognise him. Coming forward, however, the officer asked affably, “Who are you” and receiving the reply, “Bert Richardson”, he said, “What – not Richardson from the office”.

“Well, you have altered” said the officer. It was Captain O. J. Bamford, who was then on his way to the trenches. Little did either of them then think that a few weeks hence they would both lay down their lives together in the field of honour.

Bert Richardson was a well-known local pianist and before the war was frequently in demand at local concerts, dances, etc^[2a]. He was a 'sympathetic player, and gave every promise of making rapid progress in the art.^[2a]'.

He was killed with many other Uttoxeter men in the charge on the Hohenzollern Redoubt at Loos on the 13^th of October 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.