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• Name SPENCE
• Initials J
• First name JOSEPH
• Place of birth Moorside
• Country Lancashire, England
• Last residence Moorside, Oldham
• Family Son of George Spence, of 22, Dickens St., Moorside, Oldham, Lancs.
• Extra info Formerly 43100, R. Welsh Fus

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Shaw
• Service number 27100
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 5th Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 42nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 14th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career also served in the Cheshire Regiment

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on left knee, right thigh, chest penetrating and left arm in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 23 October 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - D - 16

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