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Lance Corporal JOHN JOSEPH READ

Service Number: 157935
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

180th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 24 September 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

V. D. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Latham Read, and Phyllis Read, of Hill House, Little Ayton, Great Ayton, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2145
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