Memorial

Lieutenant R E Reade

The Memorial Window

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ST ANNE'S CATHEDRAL, Donegall St, Belfast, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

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Type of Memorial: Window
WMR Reference Number: 43521
Description: STAINED GLASS SINGLE LIGHT WINDOW WITH FIGURE OF JOSHUA WITH THE SUBJECT BELOW OF CALEB AND THE SPIES, ETC., RETURNING FROM THE PROMISED LAND WITH FRUIT.
Inscription: BE THOU STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS/TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROBERT ERNEST READE, D.S.O., LIEUTENANT 1ST BATTALION KING'S ROYAL RIFLES, THE WINDOW ABOVE IS DEDICATED. HE SERVED IN THE BATTLE OF TALANAHILL, THE RETREAT FROM, AND THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH, AND RECEIVED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY AT THE BATTLE OF WAGON HILL. A YEAR AFTER THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, WHEN IN THE NORTH-EAST TRANSVAAL UNDER COLONEL CAMPBELL,A.D.C., COMMANDING 1ST BATTALION KING'S ROYAL RIFLES, HE WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED IN AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BOERS AND DIED A FEW DAYS AFTER. A MONUMENT MARKS THE SPOT NEAR BOSHMAN'S PAN. ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE OF MIDDELBURG, WHERE HE WAS LAID BY HIS COMRADES. BORN 18TH APRIL 1879, DIED 4TH FEBRUARY 1901.

War: Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename,manner of death,decorations

Window

Made from: Glass

Condition: Unknown

For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 309 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London