Reade R R Sapper
Personnel Entry
Name Reade Reginald Ronald
Army number 5260961.
Rank Sapper
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth 26/5/1923 at Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Age 63 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment - date not yet ascertained. Transferred to the Royal Engineers. Posted to the 294th Field Company. Served Normandy.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit Served in No. 3 Platoon.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions Lance Corporal.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death 5/5/1987 - aged 63 - possibly in New York, USA. It is thought that his body was cremated and his ashes then buried in Nuneaton Cemetery.
Home address 18, Meldrum Road, Stockingford, Nuneaton. He later lived at 11232, Brooklyn, Kings, New York.
Source table
Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.
We are grateful to the Sapper's great-niece for the additional information about him, and for the photographs.
A further photo of Reginald is set out below:-
