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Albert Read

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
850999
Unit at enlistment: 
176th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Wentworth
Birth city: 
Stoney Creek, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
68 Brunswick Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
68 Brunswick Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Labourer
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
24
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Letters and documents

BX September 9, 1918

Word has been received by Mr. Charles Read, 80 Winnett Street, that his son Private Albert Read had received a gunshot wound in the side and was now in the 3rd Western General Hospital at Cardiff. Pte. Read was wounded on September 3. He enlisted in May 1915, with the Dufferin Rifles. He was unmarried and many Brantford friends will watch eagerly for reassuring news of his progress.

BX May 25, 1944

Albert E. Read

The death of Albert E. Read, former resident of the City, now residing in the County, occurred at the Brantford General Hospital Wednesday, in his fifty-second year, after an illness of three weeks’ duration.  Born in Stoney Creek, Mr. Read came to this City when very small and has resided in this district all his life.  He was a veteran of the first Great War, having fought in France and England.  Mr. Read leaves to mourn his loss two brothers, Fred and Robert, and one sister, Mrs. B. Davis, all of this city.  He is resting at Reid and Brown’s Chapel until Friday when service takes place in the afternoon.  Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX May 29, 1944

Albert E. Read

The funeral of Albert E. Read was conducted Friday afternoon from Reid and Brown’s Chapel with Rev. J. Kelman of Central Presbyterian Church, in charge.  The service was attended by relatives and friends and the profusion of floral tributes testified to the esteem in which he was held.  The pallbearers were P. Green, R. Read, A. Mitchell and R. Upton.  Interment took place in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bugler F.C. Norrham, No. 20 C.I.B.T.C., sounding Last Post at the graveside.

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