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WILLIAM ROBERT SPECK
Kingston upon Hull HU3 2QU
BORN HULL 1896. HE WAS THE ONLY CHILD OF THE LATE ROBERT JOHN SPECK & MARGARET ANN SPECK, OF 64, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A LAW CLERK.
HE SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AGE 22. HE LEFT A WIDOWED MOTHER ALONE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF THE ONLY CHILD OF A WIDOWED MOTHER"
(NOTE: PTE'S G & E SPECK (EYR) SCULCOATES LANE ROLL OF HONOUR)
Heuvelland 8956
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