Research Notes:

Norman enlisted in the A.I.F. in 1916...

Regimental number	16880
Religion	Methodist
Occupation	Commercial traveller
Address	Prospect, South Australia
Marital status	Married
Age at embarkation	32
Next of kin	Wife, Mrs Eda Charlotte Richards, 1 Park Street, Milson's Point, New South Wales
Enlistment date	25 April 1916
Rank on enlistment	Driver
Unit name	January 1917 Reinforcements
AWM Embarkation Roll number	14/42/3
Embarkation details	Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Osterley on 10 February 1917
Rank from Nominal Roll	Driver
Unit from Nominal Roll	15th Field Company Engineers
Fate	Returned to Australia 12 May 1918

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Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 > New South Wales > 1930 > North Sydney > Roseville

Number: 3781
Name: Norman Vivian Richards
Address: 24 Bromborough Road
Occupation: Manager

Present was wife Eda Charlotte Richards (No. 3774), home duties

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Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936 > New South Wales > 1936 > MacQuarie > Lawson

Number: 1927
Name: Norman Vivian Richards
Address: Woodford
Occupation: Manager

Present was wife Eda Charlotte Richards (No. 1923), home duties

 

   Marriage Information:

Norman married Eda Charlotte Maude BOHLSEN, daughter of Hinrich Gerhard BOHLSEN and Charlotte JOYCE, in 1917 in St. Phillips Anglican Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Eda Charlotte Maude BOHLSEN was born on 8 Oct 1890 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and died on 20 Dec 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.) The cause of her death was tuberculosis.

The Richards Family Mary & Stephanie (back), Eda, Barbara & Norman (front)

   Source References:

1) Birth:: South Australian Births (1842-1906), Book 321, Page 422: son of John Norman Richards and Ellen Vivian Crase of Gawler
2) Marriage: NSW Birth Index, 303/1917
3) Military Enlistment: The AIF Project
4) Death: compiler's mother
4) Cause of Death: compiler's mother