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Private RICHARD SPENCE

Service Number: 100955
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)

7th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT

XIII. C. 29.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jane Spence, of St. Margaret's Hope, Orkney.
  • Personal Inscription CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY ROMANS 5. 6
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Buried or commemorated at

ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2045
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