Obituary: SSM R. Richardson
SSM Richardson served in the 3rd Hussars. He died on the 19th of May 1957.
SSM Richardson served in the 3rd Hussars. He died on the 19th of May 1957.
Initially, the Saladin was due to be issued before the Saracen APC but the Saracen was given a higher priority so production was delayed.
The Saracen was an early Cold War-era armoured personnel carrier/command vehicle that entered service in the 1950s.
Andrezy Hlawaty-Hardy was born on 14th August 1904 in Poland. He served in the Polish Kaniowski Lancers and was awarded the Polish 1918-21 War Medal.
William (Billy) Reeves was a policeman and already held the Jubilee (Police) Medal of 1897 before he joined the 7th Hussars in 1899.
Robert Montagu Poore was born at Carysfort House, near Dublin, 20 March 1860, eldest son of Major Robert Poore, late 8th Hussars, and of Juliana Benita, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Armar Lowry Corry, KCB.
George Holdsworth was born in September 1862 and educated at Eton and Cambridge.
Charles Herbert Rankin, was born 26 May 1873, second son of Sir James Rankin, 1st Baronet, and Annie Laura, second daughter of Christopher Bushell, JP, of Hinderton, Cheshire.
On 5th August 1985 at the age of 81 Major General Ralph Younger, Colonel of the 7th Hussars from 1952 and of The Queen’s Own Hussars from amalgamation to 1961 died.
Rex Hewer was educated at Bloxham School, where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 12 October 1914, and saw active service in the First World War.