| Rank | Flying Officer, Private |
| Service # | J/38151, R164303/A470222 |
| Unit # | Royal Canadian Air Force, # 1 Naval Air Gunnery School, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 2nd Bn. Kent Regt. |
John was reported at No.1 Manning Pool – Toronto in November of 1942. TT 26/11/42.
The younger son of Edgar Bruce and Minnie O. Richardson, of Tilbury; Bruce was the one time mayor of Tilbury. Husband of Nenagh G. Richardson, of North Vancouver, British Columbia.
John was rated as a LAC when he was at his parents home on furlough from S.F.T.S. (Service Flying Training School) at Oshawa, ON.
F/O Richardson attended public school and high school in Tilbury and later at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON. He was a popular athlete excelling in baseball.
Appears on the “Muster Roll” of the 2nd Bn., Kent Regiment (MG), N.P.A.N.
(date unknown). John would transfer to the RCAF.
Three weeks before his death he married Sub-Lieut. Nelagh Hitchinson (WREN) of Vancouver B.C. at a ceremony in Yarmouth NS. Besides his parents he was survived by a sister Mrs. E. C. McClure of Toronto and a brother Captain J. F. Richardson RCMC. F/O William Bruce Richardson who DOAA 6/09/1944 was a cousin.
John received his pilots wings at No. 16 S.F.T.S, Hagerville, ON. after his basic training in Toronto, ON.
Age: 27, DOAA, Date of Death: 20/10/1944, While being a flying instructor with two Anson aircraft # 11233 and 7146 crashed. F/O Richardson and two Fleet Ai Arm airmen J. A. Bennett and A. D. Brookes were killed in aircraft # 11233 after a mid-air collision, the two Ansons crashed 5 miles south of Digby, N.S. Both crews were lost.
It was expected that his remains would arrive in Tilbury via the CPR. The funeral was held at the family home. He was buried at Maple Leaf Cemetery – Tilbury.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Lot 24. Cemetery:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| Sources | Tilbury (MAPLE LEAF) Cemetery, Found in “The Tilbury Story 1887 -1987”, They Shall Grow Not Old. Rita Lobzun Collection, CDN 23/10/44, 2/01/46, TT 18/11/43, 4/11/92., 2KRMR |
| Supplemental Information | Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Lot 24. Tilbury (MAPLE LEAF) Cemetery Appears on the ‘Muster Roll’ of the 2nd Bn., Kent Regiment (MG), N.P.A.N. (date unknown). |
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