Private Peter Richardson

Private Peter. R. Richardson, 9th ( Service ) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. He was killed in action in Belgium on 29th April 1918, aged 19, during the German Spring Offensive on the River Lys and is buried in Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. He was the youngest son of Councillor Peter Richardson of Berwick. In civil life he had been employed as a clerk in the Urban Electric Coy. in Berwick and then in Manchester. He had been an accomplished pianist. The photographs show Allied troops in rather makeshift defences awaiting the German attacks on the Lys