Frederick Reader

When Frederick Reader was born in 1889, his father, Arthur, was 35 and his mother, Eva, was 28. 

He served in the Royal Army Service Corps in WW1, driving a military ambulance on the front line where he was gassed.

He married Ruth Maud Hedges in 1920 in Edmonton, Middlesex. 

He was a wood machinist, drove a London bus and then eventually owned his own garage in Putney. 

They had one child, Duncan, during their marriage. 

He died in July 1967 at the age of 78.