Name   : Wilfred Henry George RICHARDS.
Rank & Number : Able Seaman. D/X 169626.
Service  : H.M.S.”Rajuptana”, Royal Navy.
Date of Death  : Sunday, 13^th April 1941.
Age  : 22.
Cause of Death : Lost at sea.
No known grave.
Commemorated : Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, UK.
Reference  : Panel 48, Column 2.

On 13^th April 1941 HMS Rajputana, an armed merchant cruiser in a convoy to the west of Iceland, was sunk with all hands by a torpedo from the German submarine U-108.

Wilfred Henry George Richards was the son of Thomas George and Alice Mary Richards of Dorchester.