The following year, he was appointed medical officer to a German Rifle Regiment in the English service and posted with them to British North America.
(The use of green was so distinctive that it led to the naming of the Green Jackets Brigade who became the Royal Green Jackets.)
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The 363rd Motor Rifle Regiment joined the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in the city of Aleysk, and the 376th Guards Motor Rifle Yassy-Mukden Order of the Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment joined the division from the 122nd Guards MRD.
Its headquarters was established at Khankala outside Groznyy, with the 71st Motor Rifle Regiment also at the same base.
70th Motor Rifle Regiment was formed in the Urals MD and located at Shali.
Richardson later moved to South Africa, where he served three years with the South Australian militia before joining the 3rd (Bushmen's) Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifle Regiment of Western Australia, destined for the Boer War.
In 1988, he left Afghanistan and was sent to the 366 Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Transcaucasian Military District stationed in Stepanakert, where he served until March 1992.
On February 23, 1918 he was successively in command of the 2nd Zaporozhian Rifle Regiment, 1st Zaporozhian Rifle Division, UNR army, as battalion commander.
The initial weapon of the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment was the Baker rifle, which had been introduced into service in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
In June 1988, he was transferred to the Red Banner Transcaucasian BO and was appointed commander of the infantry company commander of the 366th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed in Stepanakert.