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Samuel Hugh Richardson
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| The following was researched by Royden Richardson and reproduced here
with the permission of the Richardson family Samuel Hugh Richardson, born June 09, 1882, he was a son of Samuel Richardson and Ann Matilda Brownlee, of Mattawa, Ontario. He was born in Pembroke, Ontario, where the family formerly lived. Although his attestation papers indicate he was a clerk, his military records list his career as a prospector, which is what my grandfather told me he was as well many years ago. He enlisted on February 08, 1915, in Pembroke, Ontario. He passed his medical on February 15, 1915 in Kingston, Ontario. He left Canada as Pte. Samuel Hugh Richardson, departing from Montreal with the 21st Battalion, for overseas duty, leaving on the Metagama, May 06, 1915. He arrived in Liverpool, England on May 14, 1915. From Folkstone, England he embarked for France on September 15, 1915. On February 14, 1916, he was appointed Lance Corporal as he continued to serve in the field. On July 02, 1916 he was promoted to Corporal. Only two months later, on September 26, 1916, he was promoted to Sergeant. This is where it gets complex, lol. He was later SOS with 21st Battalion and was TOS with the 19th Coy of the Canadian Forestry Corps, on March 15, 1917. (locations unknown) The following day, March 16, 1917, events in the field obviously changed as he was SOS with the 19th Coy and TOS with 27th Coy of the Canadian Forestry Corps. I kind of get the feeling that either the 19th Coy or the 27th Coy may have been very limited in numbers by this time, as his discharge certificate only mentions the 19th Coy. More research is needed to understand the locations and events that surrounded these two units in order to really know what was going on. At the time he was TOS with 27th Coy of the Canadian Forestry Corps, he was then appointed as Acting Canadian Sergeant Major of the 27th Coy. (whatever that means, perhaps the 27th Coy had lost much of it's CO's )?? Although his discharge indicates that he was with the 19th Coy, his military records indicate that he remained on strength with 27th Coy for the remainder of WW1. At the end of WW1 he was SOS from the 27th Coy and TOS again with his home battalion of the 21st Battalion, until December 23, 1918. He left England and returned to Canada where he received his discharge at Kingston, Ontario, on February 11, 1919. Upon his return home he weighed 140 pounds,
(his normal weight). He was 5' 4" tall and in good health. He was now 36 years of
age, with aging parents. His mother and father both died within 3 weeks of the other, in
December of 1919. If Samuel had remained another year overseas, he would never have seen
either of his parents again. Fortunately for at least him and his parents, the war
ended before that. Samuel died only 4 years later and is buried in the family plot at
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