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Private Walter Spalding
Great War 1914-1918: Worcestershire Regiment
Died: 6 Apr 1917 Age: 32
Tower: Stoke Prior Society: Worcestershire
CWGC Grave/Memorial: Bray Military Cemetery -- II. E. 36
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CWGC data
- Casualty Number: 34753
- Casualty Details: (Link by permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Comments
Information supplied by Geoff Sullivan (non ringer):
From The Bromsgrove Messenger Saturday 28th April 1917:
"Information has been received that Private Walter Spalding of a Territorial Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment died on April 6th from the effect of wounds sustained on the previous day. Private Spalding was the son of Mr Joseph Spalding, foreman painter at Stoke Salt Works, of Foley Gardens, Stoke Prior, and deceased also was before the war employed at the Salt Works as a painter. He was 32 years of age, and had been on active service since March 1916."