Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. H. Read, Middlesex Regiment, killed in action at Kemmel, 15 December 1914

1914 Star (S-6558 Pte R. H. Read. 4/Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (S-6558 Pte. R. H. Read. 4/Midd’x R.) generally good very fine, the Star gilded (3) £140-180

Richard Henry Read was born in 1893 in Kentish Town, London, the son of George and Matilda Read, of 73, Bayham St., Camden Town, London. An engine cleaner with London & North West Railway, he enlisted at Mill Hill and served with the 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 November 1914. He was killed in action on 15 December 1914 at Kemmel, aged 21. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.