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4 unusual facts about George Windle Read


George Windle Read

General Read’s awards and decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal and the British Order of the Bath.

In retirement Read resided in Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania.

After three of his divisions were transferred to take part in the Saint-Mihiel Offensive, Read continued to command the other two as a corps under the British Army in the Ypres area, participating in the September offensive that breached the Hindenberg Line.

George Windle Read, Jr.

Read graduated from the Cavalry School Regular Course in 1937, afterwards serving in the Middle East as an observer in Palestine and a member of the Armored Force Board that was based in Cairo, Egypt.



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