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Here is a handmade Tobacco Tin presented to my Great Grandfather Lt.(QM) Richard George Read of the 118th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (b.1899 d.1946) whilst a POW in Changi, Singapore 1942. Richard served in the BEF from the age of 14 in 1914 then in Palestine and Egypt until 1930. He re-enlisted in 1938 and was captured at the fall of Singapore in 1942, where he spent the rest of the war as a POW in Changi. He sadly died within a year of his release in 1946. He was survived by his wife and two daughters of Llangawsai, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth. He is commemorated at Llanbadarn Fawr War Memorial

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