Name
Samuel Thomas Spicer
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29549
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of William Dowton and Jane (Spicer) Dowton living in Bull Plain, Hertford in 1901 and in 2 Spencer Street, Hertford in 1911 working as a coal dealer’s carman.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and was killed in action on the eve of the Third Battle of Ypres in the region of Zillbeke.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
