Person    | Male  Born 1910  Died 13/2/1943

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Lance Corporal Albert Thomas Read.  Born 1910 in St Pancras, the youngest son of William John and Hannah Maud Read née Sweeny. His father was Fruit & Flower Seller. In the 1911 census the family were living at 5 Collier Street, N1. The electoral registers showed that the family moved to various addresses:
1918. 10 Hermes Street, Finsbury.
1928. 30 Mandeville Houses, Pentonville.
1929. 35 Mandeville Houses, Pentonville.
1931. 32 Liverpool Road, Islington.
1935. 33 Myddelton Buildings, Islington High Street,
1938. 6 Cloudesley Square, Barnsbury, Islington.

In early 1939 he married Doris Rose Kidd and they had a daughter, Marie R. Kidd born in 1943. On 26 May 1939, he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Region. He joined the army and was attached to the 1/7^th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), service number 6199459, and he died, aged 32 years, on 13 February 1943. He is commemorated on Column 66, The Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, Matruh, Egypt.