Samuel Ernest SPENCE

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SPENCE, Samuel Ernest

Service Number:	1288
Enlisted:	14 February 1916
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Taree, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1887
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Hit by truck, riding bicycle, hit and run, Georgetown, New South Wales, Australia, 27 February 1942, aged 55 years
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Anglican 3, Section 160, Plot 60
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

14 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1288, 34th Infantry Battalion
2 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1288, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
2 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1288, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
12 Jun 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1288, 34th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia HMAT Themistocles
25 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1288, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, died tragically, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

81 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 1st March 1942, Lance Corporal Samuel Ernest Spence, 34th Battalion (Reg No-1288), labourer and postal employee (ganger on the telephone lines), from Taree, New South Wales and 15 Mabel Street, Georgetown, N.S.W., father of four, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 54. ANGLICAN 3-160. 60.

Born at Taree, New South Wales on the 9th June 1887 as Ernest Samuel to Samuel Ernest and Catherine Spence; husband of Myrtle I Spence nee Penfold (married 1925, Taree, N.S.W., died 26.5.1947, Marrickville, N.S.W.

Sam enlisted March 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 5.11.1918 (influenza).

Sam returned home on the 10th August 1919, being discharged on the 25th September 1919.

Mr. Spence’s name has been inscribed on the Taree World War 1 Memorial.

I located Sam resting in an unmarked grave, so September 2016 I placed a cross adorned with poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Gravesite completed, date and persons unknown.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

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