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Name: USSHER, Richard
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1899 Runcorn
Death Date: 5 July 1933 shot himself at the scene of aeroplane accident at Mbeya, Tanganyika, which killed his wife and for which he blamed himself.
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Army officer
Area: 'Laburra', Nyeri
Married: In Nairobi 2 July 1933 Ethel May Sayer Hopley d. 5 July 1933 aeroplane accident at Mbeya (prev. m. to Humphrey Sayer b. 1889; see her entry under Hopley)
Children: son (29 Mar 1930 London)
Book Reference: Web
War Service: Life Guards
School: Eton, Sandhurst
General Information:
Killed on their honeymoon.
Lost control in cloud and spun into hillside near Mbeya, Tanganyika
Web - Flight Magazine - Deaths - On 5 July 1933, killed in aeroplane accident in East Africa, Richard Ussher of Laburra, Kenya Colony, only son of the late Capt. Edward Ussher, Scots Greys and Mrs Edward Ussher of 11 Wyndham Place, London AND - On 5 July 1933, killed in an aeroplane accident in East Africa, Ethel wife of Richard Ussher, Laburra Kenya Colony, and daughter of Colonel and Mrs Hopley of Nairobi, Kenya Colony. They were on their honeymoon.
Web - Civil Aircraft Register - Kenya VP-KAQ - DH.60G Gipsy Moth - R. Ussher/Nyeri - Crashed, Nyeri 17 July 1932 VP-KAS - DH.60G Gipsy Moth - R. Ussher/Nyeri - Crashed 16 Oct 1932; VP-KAX - DH.60G Gipsy Moth - R. Ussher/Nyeri - Crashed Tanganyika Jun 1933
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List Dorothy Priscilla Ussher, widow, Nanyuki. Dorothy Priscilla (1896-1977) ?Richard's sister - she travelled with him Southampton to Zanzibar 2 Dec 1927
East African Standard 5 Apr 1930 has his wife as Dorothy Priscilla when his son's birth is announced.
EAS 13 July 1933 Account of the accident. He left a letter to his mother blaming himself for the crash. He shot himself through the temple.