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Personal info

Full name
RICHARDSON, Jack Jones
Date of birth
9 January 1912
Age
33
Place of birth
Athens, Henderson County, Texas
Hometown
Athens, Henderson County, Texas

Military service

Service number
O-019902
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel
Function
Battalion Commander
Unit
20th Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division,
Battalion HQ
Awards
Silver Star with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 April 1945
Place of death
Munderkingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 24 79

Immediate family

Members
Charles A. Richardson (father)
Julia J. (Jones) Richardson (mother)
Charles A. Richardson (brother)
Clarence J. Richardson (brother)
James R. Richardson (brother)
Robert L. Richardson (brother)
Julia J. Richardson (sister)
William F. Richardson (brother)
Phyllis G. (Gray) Richardson (wife)
Jack J. Richardson (son)
Valerie G. Richardson (daughter)

More information

Lt Col Jack J. Richardson graduated from Athens High School and West Point Military Academy.

He was killed by enemy shell fire.

His brother, Robert L. Richardson, lost his life in January 1945 when he was forced to bail out, when the B-17 he was piloting, caught fire. His body was recovered several days later from Lake Sabine, Texas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.10tharmored.com, www.newspapers.com – Tyler Morning telegraph Texas - 9 May 1945, www.facebook.nl

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Joel Frampton Gilfert, Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Henderson County, Texas