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Captain Tracy Custer Richardson

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1889-11-21
Place of birth: Bleiz British Honduras
Next of kin: Mrs. J.R. Richardson (mother), Lamar, Missouri, U.S.A.
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Photographer
Occupation (normalized): Photographer, General
Religion: Church of England
Date of death: 1949-04-20

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 865
Highest Rank: Captain
Rank detail
  1. Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
  2. Captain (Army).
  3. Lieutenant (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes

RESEARCH INFORMATION

LAC ID: 599448
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B8254-S008
Uploader's Notes:

Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in September 1914 [an original]. Wounded May 4, 1915. Struck off strength June 1, 1915. Subsequently became a Lieutenant with the 97th Canadian Infantry Battalion. According to the Library and Archives Canada he became a Captain.

Lieutenant Tracy Richardson, commander of the machine gun battery of the Ninety-seventh and affectionately known throughout the legion a the Human Sieve. He has fourteen wounds, both Mexican and German. He got the first batch in the United States Army at Vera Cruz. At the outbreak of the European war he joined the Princess Patricia Regiment in Western Canada and was so badly shot up in Flanders that he was sent home with a pension. Of course, he has given up the pension to go back with the American Legion, for that in itself disproves the verdict of the surgeons that he was disabled for life.

Uploader's Research notes: [Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 97th Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Captain Army Canadian Infantry ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2007-10-12
Last modified: 2013-01-02