Service Details
Name:
 READ
Given Name:
 JAMES
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 60987
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Field Force Brigade, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1940-03-22
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Cesna Airmaster ZS-AIX #340, crashed into high ground flying in cloud near Heidelberg, on way to a reunion at Kingswood College
Additional
Information:
Son of Hendrik Benjamin and Ethel May Read (formerly Hoblyn, nee Philipson), of Storms River, Cape Province. A clerk at the Department of Justice. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 O. 1.

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