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Private JOSEPH SPENCE

Service Number: 27100
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 October 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XXII. D. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Spence, of 22, Dickens St., Moorside, Oldham, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription THE GRIEF WAS HARD BUT WE'LL NOT COMPLAIN BUT TRUST IN GOD TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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