Kenneth Clarence Richardson Sergeant R/201135 Royal Canadian Air Force May 20, 1926 Windsor, Ontario November 24, 1942 No. 8 RCAF Recruiting Centre, Windsor, ON Windsor, Ontario 16 5 feet, 4 inches Medium Greenish Blue Brown Single Millwright Anglican Herbert James Richardson (Father) September 3, 1944 18 Windsor (Grove) Cemetery, Ontario Soper Section, Lot 77, Grave N

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Kenneth Clarence Richardson was the son of Herbert James Richardson (d. 1944) and Lillian Katherine (Pye) Richardson, and brother of Paul Herbert Richardson. Kenneth’s father worked for the Sandwich, Windsor, & Amherstburg Railway Company. Kenneth’s enlistment record listed his year of birth as 1923, but the Department of Defence Estates Branch form completed by his mother, and his death certificate confirm that he was born in 1926. Prior to enlisting in the RCAF, Kenneth served with the 2nd Battalion, of the Essex Scottish Regiment. He enjoyed football and rugby and was employed as a millwright with Eaton Wilcox in Windsor, Ontario. He was stationed at the No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School (7 EFTS) in Windsor, Ontario in the summer of 1944. Sergeant Kenneth Clarence Richardson died September 3, 1944, at Pelee Island, Ontario, the result of an accidental drowning. Both Kenneth and his father drowned in the accident off the pier at the Breezy Point Club on the south end of Pelee Island between midnight and 2 am. A funeral was held on September 5th with military honours from the No. 7 Training Depot in Windsor, and interment occurred the same day at the Grove Cemetery in Windsor, Ontario.