2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
24/06/1894
Died:
31/07/1917 (Died of Wounds)
Age:
23
Summary
Thomas John Richardson was the youngest son of James and Mariah Richardson. He was born 24th June 1894. He was one of three children. They were a farming family that lived in Ballynagarve, Ballyronan. Thomas enlisted in Glasgow. Private Thomas Richardson was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died of wounds in France & Flanders on Tuesday 31st July 1917.
Further Information
Thomas Richardson was the youngest son of James and Mariah Richardson. James Richardson married Maria Glassey on 7th June 1881 in Desertcreat Parish Church in Cookstown.
Thomas John Richardson was born 24th June 1894. He was one of three children.
Family: James Richardson, Mariah Richardson, Mary Jane Richardson (born 30th June 1888), James Alexander Richardson (born 28th January 1892), Thomas John Richardson (born 24th June 1894).
The 1901 census lists Thomas as age 5 living with the family at house 20 in Ballynagarve, Ballyronan, County Londonderry. James Richardson was a farm labourer.
The 1911 census lists Thomas John as age 17 living with the family at house 20 in Ballynagarve, Ballyronan. Thomas was working on his father’s farm.
Thomas Richardson enlisted in Glasgow.
His father, James Richardson, died on 6th January 1915 in the Magherafelt area, aged 58.
Private Thomas Richardson was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died of wounds in France & Flanders on Tuesday 31st July 1917.
Private Thomas Richardson is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery.
The CWGC record Private Thomas John Richardson as the son of Mariah Richardson, of Ballynagarve, Magherafelt, Co. Derry, and the late James Richardson.
