BORN HULL 1887. SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN & ALICE SPAFFORD, OF26 SALTBURN STREET, HULL. A BUTCHER SHOP ASSISTANT.
HE MARRIED IN 1914. HIS WIFE EVA EVERLYN COCKBURN & SON WALLY, LIVED AT 2, FLINTON GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION AND 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 8TH KING’S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION. ON 13/04/1918, AGED 31. COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH ROLL OF HONOUR, NEWINGTON, HULL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 30/04/1918.
HE LEFT BROTHERS, HERBERT, HARRY, PERCY AND FRANK SPAFFORD.
NOTE: SKIPPER JOSEPH SPAFFORD – 2 MRYTLE GROVE, ETON STREET, HULL; EDWARD, SPAFFORD, EYR – 26 SALTBURN STREET, HULL
