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Captain FRANCIS EYTON SPURLING

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 December 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

XIII. A. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick William Spurling (Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and Canon Residentiary of Chester) and Clara Eyton, his wife. Served in S. W. Africa, 1914; dangerously wounded while rescuing one of his men, April, 1916, again wounded, April, 1917. Married Mary Geraldine Greathead who died June, 1916.
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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