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Willie Read
Wing Commander William Ronald Read, & Two Bars (17 May 1885〔"Wing Commander Read Retires", ''The Times'', 21 May 1932〕 – 1972〔) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force officer of World War I and the inter-war period. A pre-war member of the Royal Flying Corps (which became the RAF in 1918), he was one of only a handful of officers to ever receive a second bar to the Air Force Cross (i.e. he was awarded the AFC three times).
==Early life and career==
Read came from a wealthy family〔(Linda R. Robertson, ''The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Ages and the American Imagination'', University of Minnesota Press, 2003 )〕 and was the eldest son of W. T. Read of Hampstead.〔"Forthcoming Marriages", ''The Times'', 7 December 1915〕 Both his parents died when he was twelve and he and his siblings were raised by guardians.〔 He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.〔〔
Read was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Carabiniers, a yeomanry (part-time volunteer cavalry) regiment, on 23 September 1906. On 6 March 1907, after leaving Cambridge, he transferred to the 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards, a regular regiment.
After obtaining his pilot's licence in April 1913,〔〔 Read was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot on 28 April 1914 and joined 3 Squadron.〔 He was promoted lieutenant on 14 June 1914.
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