Walter Gardner's Story.
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour
Volume 4.
Richardson, Walter Gardener, Private, No. 24492, 10th Service Battalion. The Cheshire Regiment, only son of the late Private Thomas Richardson, of the Manchester Regiment, drowned while on active service (see Vol. III. Page 230) by his wife, Mary Elizabeth (174, Wheatland Lane, Seacombe) daughter of the later William Driver. Born Birkenhead, 18 July 1896, educated at St. Paul’s School and River side School, Seacombe. He was an assistant at the Gas Works; enlisted 5 Jan 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September 1915 and was killed in action at Ploegsteert Wood 17 February 1917. Buried in the Royal Berkshire Cemetery, Ploegsteert.