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Private WILLIAM IRVING READ

Service Number: 7591346
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

3 Army Field Workshop

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KEMMEL CHATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY

P. 1.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Annie Read, of Egremont, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH ABSENT FROM US YET EVER NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

KEMMEL CHATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1157
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