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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Silsden
• Land Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Silsden
• Family Son of Robert Bell Spence and Annie Spence, of Silsden, Yorkshire; nine brothers and sisters; eldest brother Walter enliste with the Royal Garrison Artillery, survived the war;
• Profession Weaver at Messrs.John Knox
• Extra info Family was informed by R.E.Jones, Chaplain

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment December 1914, Skipton, Yorkshire
• Service number 3702
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
• Other data related to military career to France on 14 April 1915

Death

• Wounded 15 July, trench mortar hit on the parapet where he was standing
• Type of wounds Died of wounds, fractured femur and crushed pelvis caused by shellfire at 5.45 a.m., in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - B - 12

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