SPEAR, William James Clement

Rank: 
Company Sergeant Major
Unit / Base: 
47RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PLY/X 1264
Born: 
Thursday, November 15, 1917
Birthplace: 
Bath, Somerset
Died : 
Thursday, November 2, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
26
Local Roll of Honour: 
Company Sergeant Major William Spear, 'Q' troop, died at Walcheren. Son of William James Spear and Emily Louise Spear; husband of Eileen Spear, of Camel's Head, Plymouth. Whilst advancing with 2 sections of his troop to engage the enemy who were in a series of gun batteries along the dunes west of Klein Valkenisse, they encountered accurate enemy mortar fire resulting in his death and many other casualties.
 

Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/137.
Professor (Capt) John Forfar MC. 47RM Cdo. author  'From Omaha to the Scheldt.

Primary Roll of Honour: 

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