Read, Keith George

Date of Birth	1915-09-15
Date of Death	1977-12
Age	61
Gender	Male
Birth Place	Australia, Tasmania, Hobart

Service Details

Service	RANR - Royal Australian Navy Reserve
Date of Entry	1939-12-02
Rank	Able Seaman
Rate	Gunner
Official Number	H728
Discharged Date	1946-01-08
Discharge Type	Free - Discharged before time without purchase
Service Period	1939-1946
Active Service (War service)	WW2
Service Record	Yes
Ship	Refer Service Record see Sources

Cemetery Details

Cemetery Name	Cornelian Bay Cemetery Queens Walk Cornelian Bay (Hobart) TAS 7008
Cemetery Address	Cornelian Bay, TAS
Demonination/Area	Church of England
Section	TW
Grave Number	3
Grave Type	Burial - Grave

Notes

Defensively Armed Merchant Ship (DEMS) Gunner. Prisoner of War captured 8 Dec 1940, following the sinking of his ship Triadic by the German raider Orion off Nauru. Picked up by the raider's supply ship Kulmerland, transferred to the raider and then to another German ship the Ermland he reached Bordeaux April 1941.- DEMS Whats DEMS? Marcus 1986. See also Frank Enscoe #4246

Sources

Service Record - Australian National Archives Nominal Roll - Department of Veterans Affairs

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