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1875 Feb 21. Born Stoke Damerel, Devon
1881 census at 15 St Stephens Street, Stoke Damerel, Devon
1891 census, his father is a Labourer. They are living at the same address, but he is not there.
1890 Jul 24 Enlists in Royal Artillery
1899 Mar 7 Married either Jessie Bossom or Mary Ann Johnson in Woolwich
1902 KSA with 66 Battery in South Africa
1914 Dec 20 Commissioned 2nd Lt (I think he is a Sergeant in 1911 census but is in as "Frederick James Richards")
1915 May 9. Promoted Lt
1915 Jun 11. Promoted temp Capt
1917 Feb 3. Requests a wound pension
1921 Jan 11. Retired from Army on retired pay
1920 Dec 29 Joined ADRIC with service no 1386. Posted to A Coy
1921 Feb 26 Posted to Depot
1921 Apr 16. Division CQM in charge of stores and promoted Section Leader HQ
1922 Jan .11 Posted to Holyhead
1922 Jun 1 A child born to him and Miss Hyde at Reading - Eileen Elizabeth RIchards (she died unmarried in Haverfordwest in 1985)
1927 Aug This is him as Co Sec of Mobile Catering Co, which he still was a director when he died
1934 Married his long time mistress
1936 May 1. Died . He had tried to pass off his first marriage (to Rite M Hyde) as being to the lady he married in 1932, when he tried to regularise the situation. But the army refused her a pension
WO 339/22044