Serial Number: NZ413679
RNZAF Trade:Flight Mechanic, then Flight Engineer
Date of Enlistment:20th of June 1941
Rank Achieved: Warrant Officer
Flying Hours:
Operational Sorties:

Date of Birth: 22nd of September 1915 at Cambridge
Personal Details: Ted was the elder son of Mr Arthur John Stewart Richardson (who was incidentally a First World War veteran and in World War Two was an officer in the Cambridge Home Guard). Ted's younger brother John Richardson was also in the RNZAF.

Ted married Heather Gladys Scott (died 1985), and they had two children, John Scott Richardson and Julia Richardson.

Service Details: Ted joined the Air Force at RNZAF Station Harewood on the 20th of June 1941, where he trained as a Flight Mechanic.

Later in his career he remustered to the aircrew role of Flight Engineer, and he was based at Whenuapai on one of the heavy transport squadrons, either No. 40 Squadron or No. 41 Squadron (or both), as a Flight Engineer in Douglas C-47 Dakotas.

Details of Death: Ted Richardson died on the 2nd of December 2000, aged 85
Buried at:

Connection with Cambridge: Ted was born in Cambridge and lived most of his life in the town.

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