The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Spooner

Private Walter SPOONER, G/23571, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 41764, Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, Flanders France, 21st September 1917, age 34.

Born Walsingham, Norfolk, son of Alfred and Marie Spooner, of Knight Street, Walsingham, Norfolk.

1911 Census - Knight Street, Little Walsingham, Norfolk - Alfred Spooner, head, age 53, married, blacksmith, engineers general, worker, born Thornage, Norfolk; Maria Spooner, wife, age 55, married 30 years, 8 children, 6 still alive, born Hindringham, Norfolk; Walter Spooner, son, age 28, single, blacksmith, engineers general, worker, born Walsingham, Norfolk; Frank Spooner, son, age 25, single, bricklayers labourer, builder, worker, born Walsingham, Norfolk; Florence Spooner, daughter, age 21, general servant domestic, born Walsingham, Norfolk.

Husband of Alice Elizabeth Spooner, of The Square, East Rudham, King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Enlisted Norwich, Norfolk.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108., Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium / Little Walsingham War Memorial.

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