Photo: Geordie at War Project

In Gateshead (Saltwell) Cemetery is a family headstone for Read which reads:

In loving memory
of
Phillips Towler Read
2nd Lieut. R.F.A.
who fell in the
Battle of the Somme
October 23rd 1916
Aged 33 years
Interred in France
Faithful unto death

The Rev. James Phillips Read
beloved husband of
Eleanor Almond Read
who entered . . . . . . . .
June 27th 19....
. . . . . . . .

Also Eleanor Almond Read
wife of the above
who died January 2nd 1937
aged 82 years

Morpeth Herald 10/11/1916 carries a brief obituary:

Second-Lieut. Phil. T. Read, Catham, Elgy Road, Gosforth, has been killed in action. He was, prior to the war, head of the firm of G.E. Armond and Co., Gateshead.

Phillips Towler Read is remembered in Gateshead on G39.039

My Primitive Methodist Ancestors JP Read
My Primitive Methodist Ancestors PT Read
The CWGC entry for 2nd Lieutenant Read