Captain Alfred Terence Leatham Richardson

Regiment: West Somerset Yeomanry
Date published: 28/12/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/11/1917
Age at death: 25
Cemetery: Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel And Palestine (including Gaza)
Plot: L. 61.
Information: Capt. Alfred Terence Leatham Richardson, West Somerset Yeomanry, killed in action in Palestine on November 6, aged 25, was the only son of the Rev. Alfred Richardson, late vicar of Combe Down, Bath, and grandson of the late Joshua Pim Richardson, formerly of Brookfield, Co. Antrim. He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, and was in the O.T.C. at both places, whence he got his commission at the outbreak of the war, serving Gallipoli and Egypt. He was made a temporary captain in 1916 and a permanent captain in 1917. Fond of all sports, he was in the boats at Eton, and captain of his college boat at Oxford, and a whip of the beagles. He was killed whilst leading his men in a victorious charge.