Background
Read, Beverly Money was born on December 17, 1919 in Lexington, Virginia, United States. Son of Hernando Money and Ann Katherine (Bosworth) Read.
Read, Beverly Money was born on December 17, 1919 in Lexington, Virginia, United States. Son of Hernando Money and Ann Katherine (Bosworth) Read.
Bachelor, Virginia Military Institute, 1941; postgrad, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, 1954; postgrad, Commissioned & General Staff College, 1954-1959; postgraduate, The Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1959.
With intelligence staff, guerilla liaison officer, United States Army, Philippines, 1944-1945; Executive officer airborne battalion, United States Army, 1947; with 11th airborne division, United States Army, Leavenworth, Kansas, Japan, 1948-1949; commander 2d Battalion, 20th infantry, United States Army, California, 1950-1952; commander, lst battalion 17th infantry, Korea, 1953-1954; faculty, United States Army, 1955-1958; commander 2d battalion 19th infantry 24th division, 2d battle group, 1959-1962; commander 1st brigade 24th infantry division, United States Army, 1962-1964; chief of staff 24th infantry division, United States Army, since 1964; G-3, United States Army, Vietnam, 1969-1970.
Chairman Lexington Highway Safety Commission, since 1973. Member of advisory board of trustees Mary Baldwin College, 1983-1988. Member Kiwanis (vice president Lexington chapter 1985-1987).
Married Jane Elizabeth Read (deceased 1958). Children: British Columbia John, James Money, Cynthia E. Read Kendig. Married Suzanne Legg, January 1971.
Children: Reid Scott Perry, Brooke Nelson Perry, Meade Kirkpatrick.