Private Henry Leslie Spencer

Army Number: TR/6/4703

Battalion: 13th Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Shown on Silver War Badge List (Discharged with wounds of illness) F/A/1715

He enlisted at Nottingham on 8th December 1915, aged 21. Mobilised on 1st July 1916, he was posted to the 13th (Reserve) Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, four days later. He was then transferred to 12th Battalion Training Reserve on 1st September 1916; and 26th May 1917. Worsening health led to his discharge due to pleurisy contracted due to “sleeping between damp blankets” on 11th July 1917. He died on 30th August 1917.

Buried: Nottingham Northern Cemetery, United Kingdom. Plot T. Row 6. Grave 14.