Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais

Notice of Death appears in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 11 October 1915

 

NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 30 October 1916

Unveiling of Memorial Tablet to the Late Lieutenant Ruskin J R Richardson. The speaker in St Pauls Church on Sunday morning was the Very Reverend the Dean of Jersey who, after the service, was conducted by the Reverend A Poynder to the pulpit side of the Church where a beautifully designed marble memorial tablet was erected to Lieutenant Ruskin J R Richardson, the late son of Mr J J Richardson of Longueville Manor. On the tablet was engraved the following inscription "In memory of Ruskin John Robert Richardson, Lieutenant 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment who was killed in action in northern France on 3 October 1915 at the age of 25". Having performed the unveiling ceremony the Dean said that the late Lieutenant Richardson had been one of the first to enlist in the Universities and Public Schools Battalion when war broke out and on 3 October 1915 he was killed in action at the Battle of Loos. The late Lieutenant received his education in New South Wales and at Victoria College and was an Undergraduate at St Johns, Cambridge. His late paternal grandfather, Mr William Ruskin Richardson, was a cousin of the late Professor John Ruskin, the great art critic and author.

Family memorial in St Paul's Church, New Street, St Helier, Jersey

 

Lieutenant Ruskin John Robert Richardson
3rd Battalion - Attached 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
25/09/1915

1914-15 Star

Son of John James Richardson of Longueville Manor, Jersey, and of Mrs. J. J. Richardson (now Lady Jeans, of 3, St. Aubyn's Mansions, Hove, Sussex). Undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge.

Killed in action, aged 25 years.

Educated at Victoria College and St Johns College, Cambridge

Commemorated on OV Memorial, Jersey
St Saviour's Parish Memorial, Jersey
St Columba's Church of Scotland, Jersey (window)

Memorial window at St Columba's Church of Scotland, St Helier, Jersey

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record