Roy Spencer
Service number
3384945
Military unit
1st Bn East Lancashire Regiment
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
18 Apr 1914
Date of death
01 Aug 1944 (30 years old)
Place of birth
Hodthorpe, Derbyshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
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Family history
Son of Clement and Eliza Hinette Featherstone Spencer. In 1939 Roy's widowed mother was living at 17 Eakring Road, Bilsthorpe.
Siblings: Nora (1903), Sarah (1906), Thomas (1908), Ethel (1911), Clement (1915), William (1919), Frederick (1921).
Clement snr had fought in WW1.
Roy married Kathleen Birch of Bilsthorpe in 1941.
Military history
1st Bn,East Lancashire Regt: They were in Normandy from late June 18944 and took part in the advance on Caen.
Extra information
Buried at Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville, France plot V. E. 10.
Photographs
No photos