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Captain RICHARD WILLIAM OSBORNE SPENDER

Service Number: 184635
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 March 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY

3. B. 20.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Osborne Spender and Elizabeth Ann Spender, of Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription ''IN HIGH PROUD EXULTATION LET US REPAY LAUGHING BLOOD WITH SPILT" R. W. O. S.
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Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 500
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