A HAPPY SEQUEL
RICHARDSON, V.C., IN THE ARMS OF HIS FAMILY.
(UNITED PRES3 ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (BEUTEK'S TEUOBAii.) (Received Bth April, 10 a.m.) t LONDON, 7th April. In connection with Corporal Herbert Richardson, the Victoria Cross hero who .was impersonated by a man named Aeal Richardson, the discovery of the fraud/ has had * its happy result. Richardson, who was working as a labourer at Liverpool, has now had a reunion with his well-to-do family after twenty-five years' estrangement. He visited his old home in trepidation, wondering what his reception would be, but he was recognised instantly, and received with embraces and kisses. Richardson said: "When I read of the exploits of the roasquerader I was staggered. l'(am too quiet, but when I saw I was dead I thought it was time to let people know I was alive."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 84, 8 April 1924, Page 7
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136A HAPPY SEQUEL Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 84, 8 April 1924, Page 7
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