Signalman A. E. Richardson

Signalman Richardson, who prior to the war was a surface-page 271man in the New Zealand Railways Department, first entered camp at Wingatui in August 1942. After serving in the Corps of Signals as a heavy truck driver at Riccarton and Washdyke he was transferred to the overseas forces and sailed from Papakura in April 1943 for New Caledonia as a reinforcement for Third NZ Divisional Signals. He was posted as a linesman driver in B cable section. He saw action in Vella Lavella and Nissan before returning to New Zealand in an essential industry draft in June 1944.