Fourth child. In World War I he enlisted in July 1916 and embarked on 23 November 1916 as a Private n the 21st Infantry Battallion A.I.F. Richard joined his brothers and they all went to France with the AIF to fight in the trenches under General John Monash. Richard was later promoted to Sergeant in the 21st Battlalion, 6th Infantry Brigade. Killed in WWI aged 35 on 5 October 1918 at the Australian assault on the village of Mont Brehan - the last day that the Australian infantry were in action in France.