Anthony Thomas Stewart Currie Richardson (1899 – 4 February 1964
[National probate Calendar]) was a British awriter of adventure fiction and non-fiction.
Biography
Richardson was born in 1899 in the Kensington district of
London
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and educated at
Marlborough College
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. In 1940 he was commissioned in the
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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(Administrative and Special Duties Branch). Richardson's most well-known work is probably ''Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry's Escape from Occupied France in the Summer of 1940''. Richardson also wrote under the pseudonym Patrick Wynnton.
Bibliography
*''Word of the Earth. Conversations Between Fictitious Characters'' (1923)
*''Ransom'' (1925)
*''High Silver'' (1926)
*''The Barbury Witch'' (1927)
*''The Transgressor'' (1928)
*''Milord and I'' (1930)
*''City of the Rose'' (1933)
*''Golden Empire'' (1938)
*''Because of these: Verses of the Royal Air Force'' (1942)
*''These - Our Children'' (1943)
*''Full Cycle: Verses of the Royal Air Force'' (1946)
*''Wingless Victory'' with
Sir Basil Edward Embry (1950)
S ed.: ''Alone He Went'' (1951)*''The Rose of Kantara'' (1951)
*''The Crowded Hours: the Story of 'Sos' Cohen'' (1952)
*''I was a Pirate'' (1959)
*''Crash Kavanagh: A Biography of Reg Kavanagh'' with Reg Kavanagh (1953)
*''Nick of the River: The Story of Detective Inspector David Herbert Cyril Nixon'' with David Herbert Cyril Nixon (1955)
*''No Place to lay my Head. An account of the experiences of a Belarusian in the German Army during the Second World War'' (1957)
*''Never Say Die: A return to everyday living for the partly disabled'' (1959)
*''One Man and his Dog'' (1962) about a
German Shepherd puppy
Antis rescued from World War Two
no man's land
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in
France
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by Czech fighter pilot
Robert Bozdech
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
and their lives together.
*''Nick of Notting Hill: The bearded policeman. The story of Police Constable J. Nixon of the Metropolitan Police'' with Joe Nixon (1965)
As Patrick Wynnton:
*''The Black Turret'' (1925)
*''The Third Messenger'' (1926)
*''The Lady Zia'' (1928)
*''The Lost Mark'' (1929)
*''The Honourable Pursuit'' (1930)
*''The Ten Jewels'' (1931)
*''The Agent Outside'' (1931)
;Short stories
Published in ''The Thriller'':
*"Mystery of the Arches" (1933)
*"Hells' Gamble" (1933
*"Crooks Cove" (1934)
*"The Grand Duke's Seal" (1934)
*"Guardian of the Idol's Eye" (1935)
Published in ''Short Stories'':
*"The Net – Parts 1–4" (1933)
Sources
*http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RAFVR_officers_R01.html#Richardson_ATSC
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120310162311/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/t1900.htm
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1899 births
20th-century English novelists
English thriller writers
English male novelists
20th-century English male writers
1964 deaths
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Royal Air Force officers
20th-century pseudonymous writers