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Leading Aircraftman RICHARD MOWBRAY SPENCER

Service Number: 934363
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 04 December 1940

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BLACK BOURTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Row B. Grave 3.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Rowland Haslegrave Spencer and Mary Harriet Spencer, of Chipstead, Surrey. Scholar of Stowe School, Buckingham and King's College, Cambridge. His brother Peter Rowland also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription YOUNGER BROTHER OF CAPTAIN P.R.SPENCER ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHRS. KILLED IN ACTION IN NORMANDY 7TH AUGUST 1944 AGE 26 "IN YOUTH THEY PAID THE COST"
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