Alfred Terence Leatham Richardson Obituary in Bath at Prior to Now Trust

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Alfred Terence Leatham Richardson

6/12/1892 - 11/6/1917

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Obituary For Alfred Terence Leatham Richardson

CAPT. ALFRED TERENCE LEATHAM RICHARDSON.

West Somerset Yeomanry,( aged 24, killed in action on November 6th, in Palestine, was the only son of the Rev. A. Richardson, late Vicar of Combe Down, Bath.

He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, and was in the O.T.C. at both places, whence he got a commission at the outbreak of the war.

Fond of all sport, he was in the boats at Eton, and was captain of his College boat at Oxford and a whip of the beagles. He was also an ardent member of the choir and musical society, and took an active interest in the Oxford and Bermondsey Mission.