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Lance Corporal ALEXANDER SPENCE

Service Number: 7390155
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Intelligence Corps

Date of Death

Died 13 May 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAYID WAR CEMETERY

5. D. 12.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Adam and Isabella Spence, of Glasgow. M.A.
  • Personal Inscription I HAVE LOST A SON WITH A HEART OF GOLD WHO WAS MORE TO ME THAN WEALTH UNTOLD
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Buried or commemorated at

FAYID WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1816
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