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Private WILLIAM THOMAS MICHAEL READ

Service Number: 21870
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1916

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

VI. P. 59.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edith Annie Read, of Whitefield Cottages, Great Missenden, Bucks. Native of Quainton, Aylesbury.
  • Personal Inscription BELOVED SON OF WILLIAM AND EDITH ANNIE READ GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1290
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