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Cpl. William Spoors
British Army 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
(d.10th Jul 1916)
William Spoors died age 21, he was born in Monkton Jarrow in 1894, son of William Thomas and Margaret Jane Spoors (nee Wears) of 30 Birch Street Jarrow. in the 1911 Census he is recorded as William spoor, age 17, a Shipyard Blacksmith, lived with his parents William & Margaret Spoor & family at 30, Birch street, Jarrow, Durham. He enlisted in Jarrow and first served in France on the 26th of August 1915.
William is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.