Person    | Male  Born 1910  Died 13/2/1943

A. T. Read

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

A. T. Read

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Lance Corporal Albert Thomas Read.  Born 1910 in St Pancras, the youngest son of William John and Hannah Maud Read née Sweeny. His father was Fruit & Flower Seller. In the 1911 census the family were living at 5 Collier Street, N1. The electoral registers showed that the family moved to various addresses:
1918. 10 Hermes Street, Finsbury.
1928. 30 Mandeville Houses, Pentonville.
1929. 35 Mandeville Houses, Pentonville.
1931. 32 Liverpool Road, Islington.
1935. 33 Myddelton Buildings, Islington High Street,
1938. 6 Cloudesley Square, Barnsbury, Islington.

In early 1939 he married Doris Rose Kidd and they had a daughter, Marie R. Kidd born in 1943. On 26 May 1939, he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Region. He joined the army and was attached to the 1/7th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), service number 6199459, and he died, aged 32 years, on 13 February 1943. He is commemorated on Column 66, The Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, Matruh, Egypt.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
A. T. Read

Commemorated ati

Western Postal District war memorial - Rathbone Place

The plaque does not point out that not all of the WW2 names were in the armed...

Read More

Other Subjects

Walter Chalice
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Harold Nicolson

Harold Nicolson

Diplomat and politician. Born as Harold George Nicolson at the British legation, Tehran in what was then Persia. Joined the diplomatic service in 1909 and served in various posts. Entered parliamen...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Iran/Persia, Spain, Turkey

1 memorial
H. Abbott

H. Abbott

Name on one of the corner plaques of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private A. W. Wessel
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
G. Ware
War dead, WW1
1 memorial