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Driver JOHN READ

Service Number: 3168
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

10th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY

I. F. 11.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Edgar and Mary Read, of 329, Battle Rd., Hollington, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England. Native of Hoxne, Suffolk, England.
  • Personal Inscription OH TO TOUCH THE VANISHED HAND AND TO HEAR THE VOICE THAT IS STILL .R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5916
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