Colonial official, Military officer, Civil Servant
Years active
1929-1963
Known for
Coastwatcher
William John (Jack) Read (born 18 September 1905, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; died 29 June 1992, Ballarat, Victoria (Australia)), was an Australian Coastwatcher on Bougainville Island in New Guinea during World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his service during World War II in the Solomon Islands campaign and the New Guinea campaign. His experiences and reports have become an important source for historians regarding the history of the coastwatchers.
WilliamJohn (Jack) Read (born 18 September 1905, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; died 29 June 1992, Ballarat, Victoria (Australia)), was an Australian Coastwatcher...
and Sarah Read, a well respected Quaker couple. JohnRead was a moderately prosperous building contractor and carpenter who died in 1724. Read had three...
the three stole an armed sloop named William from port in Nassau. Scholars are uncertain how female pirates like Read and Bonny concealed their sex in a...
between 2001 and 2006. Read was born in Buffalo, New York. His family moved to Niskayuna NY where he and his brother WilliamRead III went to school. He...
William Henry Macleod Read (7 February 1819 – 10 May 1909) was an active participant in the commercial, political and social life of Singapore and the...
WilliamJohn Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award...
The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from...
WilliamRead Miller (November 23, 1823 – November 29, 1887) was the 12th Governor of Arkansas. Born in Batesville, Arkansaw Territory; Miller was Arkansas's...
Phillip WilliamRead, MBE (1 January 1939 – 6 October 2022) was an English professional motorcycle racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from...
marriage. Some older reference books give William's birth year as 1731. William was raised by his father and Deborah Read, his father's common-law wife; she...
William Thane Read (29 June 1912 – 23 October 1996) was an American advocate for global peace. He was descendant of the George Read, Founding Father of...
WilliamRead Scurry (February 10, 1821 – April 30, 1864) was a general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. Scurry was born in Gallatin...
Keith JohnRead (born 4 May 1961) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Murray in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly...
Carpenter and William Morris. Nevertheless, in the 1953 New Year Honours he accepted a knighthood for "services to literature"; this caused Read to be ostracized...
of his poems, read primarily as championing "free love", had their anti-slavery implications short-changed. A more recent study, William Blake: Visionary...
Alfred Molina, William Jackson Harper and More". Variety. Retrieved March 7, 2024. "2024 Tony Nominations: Hell's Kitchen, Stereophonic Lead—Read the Full List"...
JohnWilliam Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known as the host...