Richard Williamson

Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Richard Williamson

Private No. 24219

8th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.

Killed in action in Iraq 20 December 1916. Age 26

Commemorated on Basra Memorial, Iraq. Panel 14 and 62.

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Born in Broxton in 1890.

Second son of Robert and Mary Williamson of High Street, Malpas.

The 1911 Census shows Richard as a farm labourer.

Richard survived Gallipoli campaign and had been previously wounded in Mesopotamia before his death in December 1916.

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Richard's younger brother, George, also lost his life in WW1.