PERCY+READ

Read, Percy, Private, 14799, 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment Disembarked for service 29th July 1915 Born Swadlincote, Derbyshire Enlisted Leicester Resided Swadlincote Killed in action 14th July 1916 aged 22 Son of Alfred and Ada Read, of 11, Regent St., Church Gresley, Burton-on-Trent. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial

1911 Census A coal miner odd worker Son of Alfred, a furnace iron founder, and Ada Read, of Portland Cottages, 39, Midland Road, Swadlincote, Derbyshire


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