Person    | Male  Born 11/2/1926  Died 14/4/1945

A. J. Spencer

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

A. J. Spencer

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private Alexander J Spencer was born on 26 February 1926, a son of Thomas William Watt Spencer and Sarah Rosina Spencer née Sharp. His father was a Group 1 Checker with the London and North Eastern Railway (L.N.E.R.) at their Marylebone Goods Depot and during World War One had enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Company Quarter Master Serjeant. The family lived at 13 Frideswide Place, Kentish Town.

In December 1942 he was appointed as a Postman in London's Western District Office. He joined the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), service number 14989319, and died aged 19 years on 14 April 1945. He is was originally buried in Gross Hauslingen, Germany but after the war was reburied on 2 August 1946 in Grave 2.F.12 at the Becklingen British War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Soltau, Germany.

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