LOUIS+W.+SPENCER

Spencer, Louis Wilfred, Private, 865840, 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Born Middleton, Derbyshire Killed in action 14th January 1918 aged 22 Son of Edward and Mary E. Spencer, of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. Buried in Sucrerie Cemetery, Ablain St. Nazaire, III, B, 7

Canadian Army Service records information: Louis was born in Middleton, Derbyshire, on the 11th December 1895. He enlisted in Brandon, Manitoba, 18th November 1916, stating his occupation as a farmer, and his next of kin as his father, Edward Spencer, of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. He was five feet seven and a half inches in height, weighed 165 pounds, had a fair complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had five vaccination marks on his left arm and a varicocele.


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