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Pte. John Edmund Spencer
British Army Labour Corps Army Service Corps
from:Formby, Lancashire
John Edmund Spencer lied about his age and joined up in Aldershot in September 1915. Instead of putting his real age of 52, he said he was 47. He lasted less than three months - he went AWOL twice, for nine days and thirty four days, and finally left Aldershot for good. A Court of Inquiry in January 1916, records his desertion on December 10th and gives a list of all the things he left with that belonged to the Army. So far, no further trace of him has been found.