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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
In loving memory of
Pte Horace Spires
9th Worc Regt
Who died in Victoria War Hospital
Bombay, India 15th Feby 1917
Aged 33 years
Too dearly loved in life to be forgotten in death
Erected by his sorrowing wife
Place of Inscription
Evesham Cemetery
Worcestershire
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Horace
Spires
1883
Evesham, Worcestershire
15th February 1917
Died at Victoria War Hospital, Bombay probably from disease
33
Kirkee War Cemetery, Poona, India
Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, Poona, India
First World War
Private
9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Originally buried at Sewri Christian Cemetery in Bombay before being transferred with all others to Kirkee War Cemetery where the war casualties were buried in one mass grave between the graves and memorial - they are also remembered on the memorial as a consequence. Horace sometimes has the surname Spiers as well as Spires
Other Records from the same place:
First World War
James Kay
Horsfield
1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force
