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RichardsonArthur12301PrivateSource: QSA Medal Rolls66th Company, 3rd Btn, IY
RichardsonArthur B291CorporalBSACM Mashonaland 1897 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls
British South Africa Police
RichardsonArthur G STrooperBSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls
Gwelo Volunteers
RichardsonArthur Herbert LindsaySergeantRICHARDSON, ARTHUR HERBERT LINDSAY, Sergeant, served in South Africa, and was the first Colonial whose Victoria Cross was gazetted during the Boer War [London Gazette, 14 September 1900]: 'Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Sergeant, Lord Strathcona's Horse.  On the 5th July, 1900, at Wolve Spruit, about fifteen miles north of Standerton, a party of Lord Strathcona's Corps, only thirty-eight in number, came into contact and was engaged at close quarters with a force of eighty of the enemy.  When the order to retire had been given, Sergeant Richardson rode back under a very heavy cross-fire and picked up a trooper whose horse had been shot and who was wounded in two places, and rode with him out of fire.  At the time when this act of gallantry was performed Sergeant Richardson was within 300 yards of the enemy, and was himself riding a wounded horse'. 
Source: VC recipients (VC and DSO book)
Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse
RichardsonArthur Herbert Lindsay46SergeantHe was the first Colonial whose Victoria Cross was gazetted during the Boer War [London Gazette, 14 September 1900]: 'Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Sergeant, Lord Strathcona's Horse. On the 5th July, 1900, at Wolve Spruit, about fifteen miles north of Standerton, a party of Lord Strathcona's Corps, only thirty-eight in number, came into contact and was engaged at close quarters with a force of eighty of the enemy. When the order to retire had been given, Sergeant Richardson rode back under a very heavy cross-fire and picked up a trooper whose horse had been shot and who was wounded in two places, and rode with him out of fire. At the time when this act of gallantry was performed Sergeant Richardson was within 300 yards of the enemy, and was himself riding a wounded horse'.
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates
Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse
RichardsonBPrivateFrontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1877-8. Medal returnedSouthey's Rangers
RichardsonB3212PrivateQSA (4). 5th Lancers Reservist. To A.R..
Source: QSA medal rolls
12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
RichardsonB7171PrivateDied of disease. Heidelberg, 7 May 1901
1st Battalion. Volunteer Company
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
(Prince of Wales's Volunteers) South Lancashire Re
RichardsonB10197SapperDied of injuries. Grootfontein, 14 February 1902
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
Royal Engineers
RichardsonB3599SergeantKilled in action. Paardeberg, 23 February 1900
1st Battalion.
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
(Princess of Wales's Own) Yorkshire Regiment
RichardsonB1436Private2nd Battalion
Source: QSA roll
(Princess Victoria's) Royal Irish Fusiliers
RichardsonB41835TrooperNo known Company. Served in 36th Btn IY
Source: QSA Medal Rolls
Imperial Yeomanry
RichardsonB1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
(Princess of Wales's Own) Yorkshire Regiment
RichardsonB3549SergeantMID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 848. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 31 March 1900. Re: Orange Free State
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War
(Princess of Wales's Own) Yorkshire Regiment
RichardsonB3549SergeantMID LG: 10 September 1901, page: 5941. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 4 September 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War
(Princess of Wales's Own) Yorkshire Regiment
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