A RANK IMPOSTER
WINNER OF V.C. IMPERSONATED. DISCOVERY AFTER DEATH. Pxw Association—By attnaph—Copyrlfßt LONDON, March 00. Nine years ago, Corporal Herbert Richardson settled in Aberdeen. Reclaimed to be the only Canadian to win the Victoria Cross in the Boer War. Recently he was presented to His Majes|jf the King, and now, seven weeks after his death, it is discovered that the man was an imposter, and had been masquerading ns 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. —A. and N.Z. Cable. HOW THE FRAUD'WAS DISCOVERED. . LONDON, March 31 (Received March 31, at 11.45 p.m.) It is stated that Richardson’s sweetheart wrote to his mother in Auckland, and discovered that his Christian names did not tally with those of the real hero, Richardson, who was employed as a kinema commissionaire at Aberdeen, and was found dead in the street.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19135, 1 April 1924, Page 7
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