Walter Spiro

Rifleman Walter Spiro was a German-born soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Crefeld, the son of Siegmund and Jenny Spiro, who settled in England by the turn of the 20th Century. At the time of the 1911 Census, Spiro was working as a bank clerk while living with his family at 21 Craven Park, Harlesden.Ancestry.co.uk. Claiming his place of birth to be Liverpool, he enlisted soon after the outbreak of war in 1914. For a time he had to recuperate in a Red Cross Hospital at Hungerford for some three months after being taken sick while on leave.Walter P J Spiro, hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
Aged 24, Spiro died on 18 August 1916, during the Somme Offensive, while serving with "D" Company", 7th Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade). His battalion had been tasked with undertaking an advance in the vicinity of Delville Wood, and suffered more than 250 casualties, including 63 confirmed killed.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Spiro, Walter, cwgc.org. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1916 deaths
Category:German military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Rifleman