Collection - George Baldwin Read Collection

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George Baldwin Read Collection

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  • 1808-1958 (Creation)
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    Read, George Baldwin

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1 cm textual materials
6 cartographic items
1 monograph

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(1886-c.1960)

Biographical history

George Baldwin Read served with the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War, and with the Canadian Artillery as a Captain in the Second World War. Born in 1886 in Ireland, he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Cork Artillery Militia in 1903. Family legend says that he left home and travelled the world, working in Hawaii, Australia, and ending up in Canada in 1909. While there, he met and married Gwendolen Pym and they had two children, Montague (1914) and Michael Richard (1915).

Read returned to England and became a Captain with NO. 10 Coy. RGA, where he served at Queenstown Harbour. He was later promoted to Admiral and served in France and Belgium.

During the Second World War he served as a Major, possibly as a spotter on Partridge Island. He retired in April 1951.

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The collection consists of Cpt. Read’s First World War military maps and Active Service Testament. An 1808 map of Russia. A copy of Col. R. Meinertzhagen’s Birds of Arabia, which belonged to Cpt. Read’s son.

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The collection (2015-013) was donated by Liz Read.

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The war material is arranged chronologically. The book has been catalogued and added to the Division’s monograph collection.

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