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Constable William Tyrrell Reading

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 2086
Age: 25
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: Calgary, Alberta
Birth: Suffock, England
Enlistment: April 10, 1888
Death: December 14, 1890 Calgary
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Constable Reading was from England and excelled at cricket and football. He was a surveyor during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and then farmed prior to joining the NWMP. Constable Reading died from injuries when a horse being exercised fell on him. He is buried in Calgary, Alberta.

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Page 17 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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