Eric Richardson

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Son of Joseph Handford Richardson and Emily Sophia Richardson; husband of Doris Richardson, of Derby.

Josephine Gately a friend of Eric Richardson wrote the following poem at the age of eight.

Eric was present at Dunkirk and was clearly traumatised by his experience.

Captain Richardson does not sleep at night

In the warm summer days he dozes in his deck chair

Under the newspaper

He calls his daughter

"take a pudding basin and buy some Walls ice cream"

Off she goes, up Sandy Lane, through Hierons wood

Down the fields to the shop, hurries back

He doles out the ice cream, watching as she eats it

Putting aside for a moment visions of young men

struggling and dying in a burning sea