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Private EDWARD CHARLES READ

Service Number: 441065
Regiment & Unit/Ship

2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 13 October 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

VII. F. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Eliza Jane Read, of Stoke Rd., Silchester, nr. Reading, Berks., England.
  • Personal Inscription A DAY'S MARCH NEARER HOME
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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