Captain RICHARD WHITAKER PORRITT
Service Number: 52841
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Lancashire Fusiliers
1/5th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 26 May 1940
Age 29 years old
Photographer: Johan Pauwels
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Austin Townsend Porritt, T.D., D.L., J.P., and of Annie Louise Porritt (nee Law-Schofield), of Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Honours Graduate, Cambridge University. Member of Parliament for the Heywood and Radcliffe Division of Lancaster, 1935-1940.
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