BORN BUBWITH, SELBY, YORKSHIRE, 1884. SON OF GEORGE AND SARAH REED, OF, 4, WOODBINE TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, EMILY.
HE MARRIED SARAH ANN ASHTON, AT COTTINGHAM, ON 14/10/1911. THEY LIVED IN SPROATLEY AND COTTINGHAM. HE WAS A PLATE LAYER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.7 INCHES TALL, 143 LBS WEIGHT, 38-41 INCH CHEST.
HE ENLISTED ON 06/04/1915, AGED 30 YEARS AND 210 DAYS. TRAINED AT HEDON. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 30/06/1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 04/10/1915, AGED 32. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 182 DAYS.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, SARAH ANN READ, OF 2, SARAH TERRACE, ALEXANDER STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). SHE REMARRIED ON 18/01/1918 AND HER WAR PENSION ENDED.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S, ST JOHN NEWLAND CHURCH MEMORIAL. HE IS BURIED AT LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
HE WAS LISTED AS “DEAD”, ON THE HULL, WOODBINE TERRACE, NEWLAND AVENUE, STREET SHRINE. ONE OF SIX REEDS AND FIVE TASKER’S SERVING FROM THIS SMALL TERRACE. (Hull Daily Mail 21 December 1916).
