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Private HERBERT READ

Service Number: 5567951
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 02 May 1941

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NOTTINGHAM NORTHERN CEMETERY

Sec. M/13. Grave 21A.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Rose Read, of Bulwell, Nottingham.
  • Personal Inscription PEACEFULLY SLEEPING: WE WOULD NOT WAKE HIM TO SUFFER AGAIN. FATHER, BROTHER AND SISTER
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Buried or commemorated at

NOTTINGHAM NORTHERN CEMETERY
Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 162
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