Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain A. E. Richardson, Rifle Brigade

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2615 Pte., 3rd Bn. Rif. Bde.); 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2616 C. Sjt., Rifle Bde.), mounted court style for wear, first and last with slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £450-500

Alfred Edward Richardson was born on 10 January 1876, the son of Bandmaster E. J. Richardson, 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade. He enlisted into the 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade in Peshawar, India on 10 December 1892 and served in the Tochi Valley Expedition with the 3rd Battalion in 1895. In 1912 he was serving as Quartermaster Sergeant at the Depot in Dublin. With the onset of war Quartermaster Richardson went to France with the 1st Battalion and on 1 October 1914 was ‘promoted in the field’ to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He was wounded at Ploegsteert Wood on 24 October 1914. Richardson was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1915 and to Captain in July 1916. With his appointment to Lieutenant, he was attached to the Machine Gun Corps, and was sometime Assistant Deputy Military Secretary at the Machine Gun Training Centre. Captain Richardson died on 24 November 1918 and was buried in the Mountain Ash (Maesyrarian) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.

His photograph appears in the Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1899, p.102, where he appears with his father and four brothers (recipient second from left), and again in a group photograph in the Chronicle of 1900, p.254.