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Personal data

• Name READY
• Initials NHA
• First name NATHANIEL HENRY ATTLEE
• Place of birth Aldeby
• Country Norfolk, England
• Family Son of Nathanial Ready and Alice Elizabeth Leeds, Wickhampton, Norwich; three sisters, Mary, Emily and Freda; one brother, William;
• Education Holt Grammar School
• Profession Government appointment in Rhodesia

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 1916
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit "F" Bn. Tank Corps (Heavy Branch MG Corps)
• Other data related to military career Joined the B.S.A.P. (British South Africa Police), won the Queen's Medal during the Boer War.
  Training at Bovington, entered the Machine Gun Corps, afterwards transferred to Tank Corps. To France 17 May 1917; went into action near Ypres on 31 July 1917.

Death

• Wounded 31 July, Spree Farm, St.Julien; the tank he commanded, Falcon n°13, was hit in the side by German shells
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds to the back and chest, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 1 August 1917
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIV - A - 12

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