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Lance Corporal WALTER READ

Service Number: 1838
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Middlesex Regiment

16th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAWTHORN RIDGE CEMETERY NO.1, AUCHONVILLERS

A. 46.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Rowland and Ada Read, of 34, Silwood St. Rotherhithe, London.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY BUT HIS SOUL TO GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

HAWTHORN RIDGE CEMETERY NO.1, AUCHONVILLERS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 153
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