In Memory Of

SPURLING, FRANCIS EYTON

Service Details
Age:
 32
Date of Birth:
 1885-04-27
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 7th Bn.
Regiment:
 Rifle Brigade
Date of Death:
 1917-12-06
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, gunshot wounds in the abdomen and lung, at 44 Casualty Clearing Station
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 XIII. A. 4.
Cemetery:
 NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Son of Frederick William Spurling (Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and Canon Residentiary of Chester) and Clara Eyton, his wife. Born Headington, Oxfordshire. A farmer at Egerton, Cradock District. He then became the Farm Manager at van Wyksfontein for JBS Greathead. Married Mary Geraldine Greathead (who died June, 1916) daughter of Dr John Baldwin Smithson Greathead M.B.Edin.,M.R.C.S., London and Esther Louisa Merriman, on 13 December 1913 in Grahamstown, Cape Town, South Africa. Served in South West Africa, 1914; dangerously wounded while rescuing one of his men, April, 1916, again wounded, April, 1917. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918