When John Charles Richens was born on 28 November 1916, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, William Edward Richens, was 36 and his mother, Gertrude Ethel Burton, was 31. He married Clarice Blanche Glover in 1902, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 17 July 1992, at the age of 75.
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Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
Probably an altered form of the German and Swiss German surname Richen, from an ancient Germanic personal name (see Reich ).
English (Wiltshire and Berkshire): variant of Richins .
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