Basic Details
Surname
Hanson
Forenames
Richard
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the service and burial detail. An unmarried man who had been educated at the village school and a member of the St Matthew's choir elsewhere in the village. He had worked in a goods yard before enlisting and was killed in the unsuccessful attack on the Schwaben Redoubt which cost the lives of over 300 of his regiment.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Somme
Country of burial
France
Town of burial
Mill Road, Somme
Cemetery
British Military Cemetery
Year of death
1916
Month of death
September
Day of death
3
Age at death
19
Manner of death as stated
Killed in Action
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action