Private John Richardson
John Richardson was born in London, England on January 22, 1895. He immigrated to Canada and worked as a Hosiery Boarder at Penmans Mill No.1. He attended the Paris Baptist Church. He was 20 years old and single when he enlisted with the 125th Battalion in Paris.
John was a member of the 9th Platoon that embarked aboard the S.S Scandinavia on February 12, 1916. The 9th and 10th Platoons were the first contingent of soldiers from Paris, nearly 100 men, to go overseas. He was transferred to the 60th Battalion in December, 1916. In June, 1917, he was hospitalized after receiving a bullet wound in the abdomen. He was taken first to a hospital in Calais, then to England, to the Kitchener Military Hospital in Brighton and others. He was discharged from the military on November 14, 1917 and placed in a Convalescent Hospital in Epsom. He contracted prostatitis in March, 1918. He was finally invalided to Canada in September, 1918. He was still in St Andrews Military Hospital in June, 1919. By this time he was 24 years old. Private John Richardson died on January 27, 1974.