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| Picture No | 10502459 |
| Date | 1941 |
| Description | Edward Colin Ryder Richardson |
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Edward Colin Ryder Richardson, aged eleven, included in the New Year's Honours List among Service and Civilian heroes as commendation for bravery. He was a passenger on the SS City of Benares, one of 90 child evacuees from Britain to Canada with the Children's Overseas Reception Board, when the ship was hit by a torpedo from German submarine U-48 resulting in heavy loss of life.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated London News, 18 January 1941 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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