Private 19315 John Henry SPENCER

Private 19315 John Henry Spencer{gallery}Pte J H Spencer{/gallery}6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
Killed in action in the First Battle (Siege) of Kut, Al Amara Iraq, Mesopotamia, 5th April 1916, aged 19

• Commemorated: Basra Memorial, Basra, Iraq. Panel 23
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
• Son of John Henry and Harriette Spencer [nee Hemmings]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | St Nicolas Church

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Spencer
• Basra Memorial
• South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 25 Aug 1887 at Cosby, Leicestershire
• Lived at Main Street, Ratby [1901]
• Lived at 7 Bull Street, Attleborough [1911]
  
• Employed as a brickyard labourer [1911]
• Employed as a labourer at White and Poppe Ltd [1916]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton 26 May 1916. Arrived in Persian Gulf 14 Nov 1916