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  • Tarilta
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Tarilta, Victoria
  • Son of John George and Elizabeth Spencer, of Tarilta, Victoria, Australia.
  • Carpenter
  • He found a way to modify the machine guns in order to enable them to fire at a faster rate

Military service

  • Enlisted 19 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 4290
  • Corporal
  • 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 2nd Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
  • Embarked 29 December 1915, Melbourne; to France 4 April 1916

Death

  • 5 October
  • Died of shrapnel wounds thorax, in n°3 Can CCS
  • 21
  • XXV - C - 11A

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