Memorial

Second Lieutenant J F Reading

Source: Gary Leek

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Current Location

St Thomas Church, Market Street, Stourbridge, Dudley, West Midlands, DY8 1AQ, England

SO 90030 84210

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Mosaic or mural
WMR Reference Number: 48117
Description: Mosaic wall tablet with a saint dressed as a knight with a sheathed sword holding a cross aloft
Inscription: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF JOHN FRANCIS READING,/ 2ND LIEUT. WORCESTERSHIRE REGT./ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR KING AND COUNTRY FIGHTING IN FRANCE/ ON 29TH APRIL 1916, AGED 22. /"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Served: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death

Memorial

Made from: Mosaic

Condition: Unknown

Pamphlet: Peacock Roy: The Memorials of the Great War at St Mary, Old Swinford, Stourbridge3; (2001) Marlborough Print, 73 Cradley Road, Cradley Heath, P18