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Private William Reader

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Military service

Service number: 958
Age: 38
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Armoured Regiment)
Birth: December 7, 1876 Marden, Kent, England
Enlistment: November 26, 1914 England
Death: June 5, 1915

Burial/memorial information

BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT.
Grave reference: V. F. 5.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Jane Reader, of Spinney Lane, Marden, Kent, England; husband of Elizabeth Mary Hobart (formerly Reader), Hackney, London, England. Served in the South African Campaign.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 33 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT. Pas de Calais, France

Festubert is a village about 6 kilometres east of Bethune and BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY is a little south-west of the village and just west of the road from Festubert to Givenchy.

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