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  • SPENCE
  • R
  • RHODES
  • Silsden
  • Yorkshire, England
  • Silsden
  • 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;
  • Weaver at Messrs.John Knox
  • Family was informed by R.E.Jones, Chaplain

Military service

  • December 1914, Skipton, Yorkshire
  • 3702
  • Private
  • 1st/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
  • 147th Brigade
  • 49th Division
  • B.E.F.
  • to France on 14 April 1915

Death

  • 15 July, trench mortar hit on the parapet where he was standing
  • Died of wounds, fractured femur and crushed pelvis caused by shellfire at 5.45 a.m., in n°10 CCS
  • 17 July 1915
  • 20
  • III - B - 12

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