Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Executive lunch with MT and Richard Reading

Richard Reading - The Man Who Would Not Die
Richard_Reading CdeG(B) Timeline 

Richard Reading CdeG(B) (1876–1929) was an English journalist, baritone and Chevalier of the Order of Leopold.


In 1914 this included photographs of the early battles in Belgium. Possibly these photographs influenced Richard Reading ...



BARROW man who was rejected as being too old for British armed forces won what was termed the "Belgian Victoria Cross" for bravery.
It was awarded to Richard Reading, who had served as a corporal in the Belgian Army but was better known as a writer for Manchester's Sporting Chronicle and for the Daily Sketch.
The government newspaper, the London Gazette, on Tuesday, February 20 in 1917, reported that King George V had granted his authority to allow Cpl Reading to wear the Belgian insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Leopold - awarded by the king of the Belgians for valuable services

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