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• Name SPENCER
• Initials HG
• First name HERBERT GEORGE
• Place of birth Tarilta
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Tarilta, Victoria
• Family Son of John George and Elizabeth Spencer, of Tarilta, Victoria, Australia.
• Profession Carpenter
• Extra info He found a way to modify the machine guns in order to enable them to fire at a faster rate

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 19 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
• Service number 4290
• Rank Corporal
• Medals 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 2nd Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked 29 December 1915, Melbourne; to France 4 April 1916

Death

• Wounded 5 October
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds thorax, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 6 October 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - C - 11A

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