Army Number : formerly 338 Colour Sergeant Major

Battalion : 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Husband of Edith Spencer, of 11, Catherine St., Mansfield, Notts Was a miner and a member of Mansfield swimming club. Went to France 2nd March 1915. Commissioned 8th December 1916. Killed in action in the attack on the German line at Wieltje, north of Ypres, Belgium, 26th September 1917. Age 36.

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 12, Row A, Grave 12.

Captain Francis Spencer is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Mansfield Swimming Club War Memorial, Mansfield, Notts
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Notts