Private 8591 Joseph Henry SPENCER

Private 8591 Joseph Henry Spencer{gallery}Pte J H Spencer{/gallery}2nd Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action in the Battle of Festubert, Richeboury L’Avone, France and Flanders, 16th May 1915, aged 20

• Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panel 26
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Joseph Henry and Sarah Jane Spencer [nee Burton]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Pte Spencer
• Le Touret Memorial
• Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Jan Qtr 1895 at Nuneaton
  
• Lived at 52 William Street, Attleborough [1901]
  
• Lived at 81 Jodrell Street, Nuneaton [1911]
• Employed as a coal miner [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton. Arrived in France 29 Nov 1914