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NAME:                      Read, Leonard Stanley
RANK:                      Private
UNIT:                      Hampshire Regiment
BATTALION ETC:             1/4th Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         2841
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Killed in action 24th July 1915
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Basra War Cemetery, Iraq
OTHER INFORMATION:         Born about 1894. Joined September 1914.
                           Son of Augustus O & Sarah Jane Read. 
                           Family living at 13 Tower Street, Winchester in 1911 (mother now a widow).
                           In 1901 family living at 51 Stockbridge Road, Winchester.
                           Enlisted: Hamilton Camp, Hants. Resided: Winchester.