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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 460

Pair: 2nd Lieutenant T. C. Read, attached 1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, who died of wounds in Palestine in April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. T. C. Read), extremely fine(2)

Terrance Capon Read was working for the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society in Shanghai at the outbreak of hostilities but chose to return home to volunteer his services.

He first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later, and died of wounds in Palestine on 22 April 1917, wounds likely received at the Second Battle of Gaza; his parent unit remains unknown, but he was attached to the 1/5th Battalion at the time of his death. The 5/Norfolk's objective on 19 April was Road Trenches on the Beersheba Road, subsequently named Tank Redoubt due to the newly-deployed tank destroyed in the attack. The casualties were simply enormous and comparable to losses suffered by battalions on the Somme; nine officers and 211 men were killed and seven officers and 377 men were wounded.

Aged 32, he was the son of Mr. A. W. Read of 'Boscombe', 92 Christchurch Street, Ipswich and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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