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• Name SPEIGHT
• Initials W
• First name WALTER
• Place of birth St. Saviour
• Country Leeds, England
• Family Son of James Bateson Speight and Sarah Glew; eight siblings; husband of Elsie Mabel Morton (married 1 November 1916); a brother, Albert, served with the 11th Reserve Bn Yorks and Lancs Regiment, awarded the Meritous Service Medal;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Castleford
• Service number 240898
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 70th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 23rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 19 August 1915
  

Death

• Date of death 10 June 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - G - 4

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