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Name: USSHER, Richard
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1899 Runcorn
Death Date: 5 July 1933 aeroplane accident at Mbeya, Tanganyike
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Army officer
Area: 'Laburra', Nyeri
Married: Ethel May Hopley d. 5 July 1933 aeroplane accident at Mbeya (dau. of Frederick Rice Hamilton Hopley and prev. m. to Humphrey Sayer b. 1889)
Book Reference: Web
War Service: Life Guards
General Information:
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
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