Name
William John Spiller
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/52031
Royal Fusiliers (*2)
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Not on the Ware memorials (*1)_
Pre War
Born in 1898 in Colyton, Devon son of George John and Edith Bessie (Vickery) Spiller and was living in the Dairy Farm, Southill, Biggleswade in 1901 and in 1911 where his father was the farm bailiff. He later lived in Ware.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford Formerly Stk/2599, Royal Fusiliers and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 The St Albans Cathedral Diocese records confirm a connection to the parish of Ware, although he is not listed on the memorials.
*2 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
