George Taylor Richardson (1886 - 1916)

Born 14 Sep 1886 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Died 9 Feb 1916 at age 29 in Belgium

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Biography

George Richardson is Notable.

Captain George Richardson was Killed in Action during World War I.

George was born in 1886. He was killed in action in Feb 1916 from machine gun fire, and he was buried in ailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.^[1]

Kingston 14th Regiment - OHA Senior Champions 1908: Kingston 14th Regiment beat Stratford 13 goals to 4. George Richardson was captain of the regimental team of 1908 which won the Ontario Hockey Association’s senior series. The 14th, having taken the first game 4 to 2 on home ice, beat Stratford 9 to 2 in Stratford, with Richardson accounting for 7 goals.^[1]

He was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his bravery during the FIrst World War, awarded posthumously. Inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Richardson Memorial Stadium in Queens University in Toronto, Ontario is named after him.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} MacLeod, Alan Livingstone. 2018. "From Rinks to Regiments: Hockey Hall-of-Famers and the Great War". Heritage House Publishing Co. 192 pages
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Memorial_Stadium

• "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHLH-6QL : 18 March 2018), George Richardson in household of Agnes Richardson, Kingston (city/cité), Ontario, Canada; citing p. 22, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
• George Richardson (1886 - 1916) in Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8553634)
• Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Richardson_(ice_hockey)
• http://hockeygods.com/images/11245-Kingston_14th_Regiment___OHA_Senior_Champions_1908
• https://www.hhof.com/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=p195007&type=Player&page=bio&list=ByTeam&team=Kingston%2014th%20Regiment
• Queen's Encyclopedia