Richard was KIA on 15/06/1915.  He was with the 1st Batt. Expeditionary Force of Barnfield Place, Plumstead, near London.  His wife Mary was born Bexley Heath on 29 July 1871.  Education was at All Saint’s Church School, Plumstead; went to Canada on 28 July, 1907; was for a number of years an employee of the Pere Marquette Railroad; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 12 March, 1914, and was KIA at Festubert on 15 June 1915.  He married at Woolwich Church on 26 March 1892.  Margaret (117 Wellington St. E., Chatham, ON, Canada, daughter of John William Hazlett (a Crimean veteran), and had three sons: Richard Henry, Jr., L/Corporal, 7th Batt. Canadian Expeditionary Force, Plumstead, 29 March, 1893, now (1916) on active service in France; John William, Private, 186th Batt., Canadian Expeditionary Force, Plumstead, 21 March 1898; and George Arthur, Plumstead, 23 February 1903.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Wounded	Killed In Action
Died	19150615
Buried at	Cabaret-Rouge B.C.
Cenotaph	Chatham and Kent County Cenotaph - Chatham
Sources	Chatham Daily Planet (28-06-1915), Chatham Daily Planet (02-07-1915), Chatham Daily Planet (21-05-1917), Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919), Centennial Chatham 1895-1995 - John Rhodes, Bill Siddall, Historian

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