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Spencer PEDDER

Regimental number1471
Place of birthBellerive, Hobart, Tasmania
SchoolOfficer College and Friends' High School, Hobart, Tasmania
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
Address155 Nelson Road, Albert Park, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation35
Next of kinFrederick Pedder, Solicitor, 15 Cedric Street, Hobart, Tasmania
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date22 December 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll16 December 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name6th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/23/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on 2 February 1915
Regimental number from Nominal Roll2285
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll6th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular'He was known through the Camp as a brave soldier not afraid of death, and won his DCM for noble service as a stretcher bearer.' (father)
FateDied of wounds 20 September 1917
Place of death or woundingYpres, Belgium
Age at death36
Age at death from cemetery records30
Place of burialLijssenthoek Militry Cemetery (Plot XXIII, Row B, Grave No. 4A), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
48
Family/military connectionsCousins: Major John Burns SCOTT, killed in action, Gallipoli; Lt Ernest Charles Gordon SCOTT, killed in action, Gallipoli; Pte Mervyn PEDDER, killed in action, France; Cpl Ernest Frank PEDDER, killed in action, France.

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