Richard Charles Badmington

Service number: 3486

Rank: Private

Unit: 53rd Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 14 October 1918

Cause of death: Illness (Pneumonia)

Cemetery or memorial details: Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany

War Grave Register notes:

BADMINGTON, Pte. Richard Charles, 3486. 53rd Bn. Australian Inf. Died of pneumonia 14th October 1918. Age 29. Son of George and Annie Elizabeth Badmington, of 22 Whistler St., Manly, New South Wales. XV. A. 54.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Richard Badmington was born at Manly in 1889 and was a carpenter to trade. He enlisted on 2 August 1915. He served in France, and was captured at Fleurbaix. He was imprisoned in the POW camp at Dulmen, Westphalia. He died there of pneumonia on 14 October 1918.

Mr Badmington is commemorated with his younger brother Harry on a headstone in Manly Cemetery, plot U.281, and on a headstone in Cologne Southern Cemetery.