Lieutenant Jack Richardson

Before serving in the Parachute Regiment, Jack Richardson served with the Green Howards (dates and rank unknown). He was commissioned as a 2Lt 14 August 1954 with East Yorks Regiment, before joining The Parachute regiment.  He successfully passed parachute jump instruction at RAF Abingdon on Course 406.

Jack jumped into El Gamil during OP Musketeer with C Coy 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment where he was wounded by a gun shot wound to his left hand. After leaving the Parachute Regiment, Jack returned to his family home in Harlow, Essex to convalesce. After finding an advert in the newspaper he sailed out to Singapore from Liverpool to work as a Rubber Tree Planter in 1959.

Jack and his wife Ann, (whom he met on the ship out to Singapore) had two children whilst living in Malaysia, moved back to England in the late 60s first living in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire where he qualified as a family Solicitor and where they had their third child. Soon after, the family relocated to Norfolk where Jack retrained as a Planning Officer for the Council and had their fourth child. Jack worked as a Planning Officer until his retirement. 

Jack spent his retirement taking communion to the sick at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, playing chess, walking his dogs and being a devoted Husband, Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather.