Frank (Toby) RICHARDSON

RICHARDSON, Frank

Service Number: WX1790
Enlisted: 4 March 1940, Subiaco, WA
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion
Born: Katanning, WA, 17 January 1920
Home Town: Broomehill, Broomehill-Tambellup, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, New Guinea, 3 December 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
IA D 12
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broomehill War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, WX1790
4 Mar 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, WX1790, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion, Subiaco, WA

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Edgar Frank and Juanita Richardson, of Broomehill, Western Australia.

ALL THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH LOOK ON THEM WHERE SO CLEAR THEY SHINE

A wave of sympathy has spread through the district for tho bereaved parents and families of boys who have fallen in the New Guinea area during  the recent bitter fighting. In the latest casualty Is included the name of Lieut Frank (Toby) Richardson, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Richardson, of "Jam Creek" Broomehill, who is reported to have been killed in action In the HUon Peninsular (N.G.) fighting on December 3. "Toby" had seen  three years of service in the Middle East before being drafted to the Islands and won his commission on the field in the Libyan campaign. He was in  his early twenties at the time of death.

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