In Memory Of

READ, JAMES

Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
60987
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
1st Bn.
Regiment:
Field Force Brigade, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1940-03-22
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
O. 1.
Cemetery:
THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
Gauteng
Country:
South Africa
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.