BWM2806 6/8/2015

Berkshire War Memorials

READING - Reading School

Reading School is one of the oldest in the country being originally founded in 1125 as part of Reading Abbey. It was refounded in 1486 as a Free Grammar School and came under the control of Reading Borough Council after the Dissolution. For many years it occupied the Abbey's Hospitium which is one of the few Abbey buildings to survive. It merged with Kendrick Boys School in 1915 and moved to its site. You can read more of its history at its Wikipedia entry

The Memorials are located in the Reading School Chapel

Reading School WW1 Memorial (WM5250)

Photo Chris Widdows

Further details can be found in the National Inventory of War Memorials

Reading School WW2 Memorial (WM5990)

Photo Chris Widdows

Kendrick Boy's School Memorial (WM5251)

Photo Chris Widdows




Lt Col N Jouques OBE lays a wreath at the memorial on Remembrance Sunday 2004.

Further details can be found in the National Inventory of War Memorials:

Kendrick School is now for girls only, the boy's school having amalgamated with Reading School in 1915

Reading School Roll of Honour (WM7014)

We have only one page of the roll of Honour taken from the records of Lt H E Aust

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