Wilfred SPICER
Wounds/Illnesses
11/7/17 to hospital, sick, France
Service
France:
Disembarked Marseilles 20/7/16
25/11/16
Rank
29/5/18 promoted to Lance Corporal
13/6/17 Leume, France reported for refusing an order from his RQMS to unpack deceased men’s kits. Given 14 days.
Married Laura Ernestine Nettlebeck
Applied to join the RAAF in February 1942. No record on file, so assume his application was unsuccessful.
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8090225&S=1 plus 19 more documents
Marriage Index
Groom Given Name(s): Wilfred Stephen
Groom Last Name: SPICER
Bride Given Name(s): Laura Earnstine
Bride Last Name: NETTELBECK
Marriage Date: 1919, August 02
Marriage Place: St Pauls Church Adelaide
Groom Age: 24
Groom Approx. Birth Year: 1895
Groom Marital Status: S
Groom Father: Joseph SPICER
Bride Age: 22
Bride Approx. Birth Year: 1897
Bride Marital Status: S
Bride Father Name: Walter Herman NETTELBECK
District: Adelaide
Symbol:
Book/Page: 280/292
Death Index
Given Name(s): Stephen Wilfred
Last Name: SPICER
Death Date: 04 Jun 1951
Gender: M
Age: 56y
Approx. Birth Year: 1895
Marital Status: M
Relative 1:
Relative 2:
Residence: Prospect
Death Place: Prospect
District: Adelaide
Symbol:
Book/Page: 768/2907
Memorial Inscription
Given Name(s): Stephen W (Bill)
Surname: SPICER
Death Date: 4 Jun 1951
Age: 56y
Relations: Husband of Laura E
Cemetery: Dudley Park
Notes: Late 1st 43rd Btn comma RAAF
KI Connection
Possibly a Yacca gum contractor:
The list of Islanders who have volunteered for service at the front is steadily increasing, and the number now totals 53. The completion of gumming contracts last week made it possible for several previously engaged in this work to offer their services, and these, who successfully passed and went into camp on Tuesday, were Messrs W. Spicer, D. Macintosh, W. S. Bush, and S. S. Morgan. Mr T. C Thomas, who went into camp some weeks ago, has been discharged on account of being medically unfit. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS (1915, November 27). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189512432