BOGUS V.C.
LIVES A LIE FOR NINE YEARS IMPOSTER SENTENCED. AFTER DEATH. [By Electric Cable—Copyright! [Auat. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, March 30. Nine years ago Corporal Herbert Richardson settled at Aberdeen, and he claimed that he was the only Canadian to win the Victoria Cross in the Boer War. Recently he was presented to His Majesty, and now, seven weeks after his death, it has been discovered that the man was an impostor, masquerading as a dead Canadian of the same name. The military authorities did not question the man’s bona tides and Richardson was accorded an impressive military funeral. It is stated that his sweetheart wrote to his mother in Auckland and discovered the Christian names did not tally with those of the real hero. Richardson, who was employed as kinoma commissionaire in Aberdeen, was found dead in the street. \
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3597, 1 April 1924, Page 5
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