Speck, William Robert

BORN HULL 1896. HE WAS THE ONLY CHILD OF THE LATE ROBERT JOHN SPECK & MARGARET ANN SPECK, OF 64 CAMPBELL STREET,HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A LAW CLERK. HE SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AGE 22. HE LEFT A WIDOWED MOTHER ALONE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF THE ONLY CHILD OF A WIDOWED MOTHER”

(NOTE: PTE’S G & E SPECK (EYR) SCULCOATES LANE ROLL OF HONOUR)