William Seidel

Private William Hermann Alfred Seidel, who served as William Herbert Spencer, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1896, in Lambeth, the son of German-born parents Franz Louis, who was a hairdresser by trade, and Augusta Emilie Seidel (née Leuschner). Augusta remarried in 1900 after her husband's death, to another German hairdresser, Paul Karl Dittrich. Seidel did not follow into the hairdressing business, instead becoming a tourist office clerk.
Aged 21, Seidel died on 27 October 1917 while serving with the 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge's Hussars) during the Palestine Campaign.
He is buried in Beersheba Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Seidel, William Herman Alfred, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
Category:1896 births
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Category:British military personnel
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Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in Israel
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