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- The memorial reads,
To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Robert Ernest READE D.S.O., Lieutenant 1st Bat King's Royal Rifles. This window above is dedicated.
He served in the battle of Talana Hill, the retreat from Dundee and the siege of Ladysmith and received the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry at the Battle of Wagon Hill. A year after the Relief of Ladysmith when in the N.E. Transvaal with a small column under Colonel Campbell A.D.C. commanding 1st Bat KRR he was mortally wounded in a encounter with the Boers and died two days later.
A monument marks the spot near Boshmann's Pan about 25 miles S.E. of Middelburg where he was laid by his comrades. Born 29th April 1789. Died 4th February 1901. Erected by his father T.H.Reade D.L. of Wilmont, Co Antrim.
This window is part of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast. He is also commemorated on a window in St Patrick's Church, Drumbeg County Down.
