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• Olof Blackwood Spence †

confirmed

Name recorded

• Olof Spence

Service number

• Service number 6099

Ranks

• Held rank of Private
• Held rank of Corporal

Birth record

• 15 July 1891 in Croydon, NSW, Australia

Death record

• 22 April 1918 in Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, France

Address

• Avoca, 88 Avenue Road, Mosman, NSW, Australia

Relationships

• Father - Valentine Arthur Spence
• Mother - Dora Louisa Blackwood
• Wife - Getrude Alice Mignon Chrisford
• Brother - Kenneth Kinross Spence

Organisation

• 3rd Battalion, AIF

Main sources

• Find War Dead (webpage)
• Death Notice [SMH, 30 April 1918] (newspaper article)
• Death Notices [Evening News, 1 May 1918] (newspaper article)
• 399th CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. KILLED. (newspaper article)
• 402nd CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. DIED OF WOUNDS. (newspaper article)
• SPENCE Olof : Service Number - 6099 : Place of Birth - Sydney NSW : Place of Enlistment - Liverpool NSW : Next of Kin - (Wife) SPENCE Gertrude (website)