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 NAME:                      Read, Valentine
 RANK:                      Company Sergeant Major
 UNIT:                      Hampshire Regiment
 BATTALION ETC:             15th Battalion
 REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         27521
 HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    25th March 1918
 WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France
 OTHER INFORMATION:         DCM. Croix de Guerre (Belgium), Territorial Force Efficiency Medal. Age 29. 
                            Son of Tom and Isabella Read, of Bransgore, Christchurch.
                            Husband of Sarah Ann Read, of "Fir View," Hill Farm, Bransgore, Christchurch, Hants.