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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:33, 19 March 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Surname and forenames=Morris Ralph Spence</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Surname and forenames=Morris Ralph Spence</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Army number=4437379</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Army number=4437379</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Rank=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sgt</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Rank=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sergeant.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Age=0</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Unit=Royal Field Artillery No 262960 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">discharged </ins>14/12/18<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Attested </ins>26/3/20 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- working as a </ins>Miner aged 27 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> - joined 9the Battalion </ins>DLI<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Re-enlisted </ins>9/7/21 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>2 yrs<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Re-enlisted </ins>15/4/21 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">discharged </ins>5/3/26<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Re-enlisted 9th Battalion </ins>DLI 13/2/34<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Posted to the 12th Battalion - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the </ins>Black Watch, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish </ins>1/2/40<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Included on the acquittance roll for 10/5/1940.  Taken Prisoner of War.  Repatriated to the UK.  </ins>Posted ? Bn Black Watch <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on the disbanding of 1st Tyneside Scottish.  </ins>Discharged <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">under King's Regulations </ins>1940 Para 390 (xvi) 7/1/46.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Unit=Royal Field Artillery No 262960 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dis </del>14/12/18<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Att'd </del>26/3/20 Miner aged 27 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">9 </del>DLI<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, r/e </del>9/7/21 2 yrs<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, r/e </del>15/4/21 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dis </del>5/3/26<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, r/e 9 </del>DLI 13/2/34<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Trf </del>Black Watch, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Posted 1 TS </del>1/2/40<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted ? Bn Black Watch<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Discharged <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">KRs </del>1940 Para 390 (xvi) 7/1/46.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Prisoner of War=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yes - Held in Stalag </ins>383, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PoW Number </ins>6262<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Prisoner of War=383, 6262</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Home address=Married Alice Ruby Lamb 1/1/18 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>Gateshead<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Lived at </ins>125, Fleming St. Teams, Gateshead<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Home address=Married Alice Ruby Lamb 1/1/18 Gateshead<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>125, Fleming St. Teams, Gateshead</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Source table=1TS</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Source table=1TS</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Date of birth=Not yet known.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Age=(At time of death).Not yet known.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Company/Battery=HQ Company.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Task or role=Probably Platoon Sergeant.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Promotions=None known beyond Sergeant.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Wounded=Not as far as is known.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>CSV import</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Personnel<br /> |Surname and forenames=Morris Ralph Spence<br /> |Army number=4437379<br /> |Rank=Sgt<br /> |Age=0<br /> |Unit=Royal Field Artillery No 262960 dis 14/12/18, Att&#039;d 26/3/20 Miner aged 27 9 DLI, r/e 9/7/21 2 yrs, r/e 15/4/21 dis 5/3/26, r/e 9 DLI 13/2/34, Trf Black Watch, Posted 1 TS 1/2/40, Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Discharged KRs 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 7/1/46.<br /> |Prisoner of War=383, 6262<br /> |Home address=Married Alice Ruby Lamb 1/1/18 Gateshead, 125, Fleming St. Teams, Gateshead<br /> |Source table=1TS<br /> }}</div>

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