21162 Private Joseph Spain of the 8th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in action on the 27th April 1916. He was born in Dublin, the son of Joseph and Teresa Spain, of 15 Sullivans Quay, Cork, and enlisted in Dublin at the end of April or early May 1915.
Joseph arrived overseas in France on the 20th December 1915 and was killed near Loos. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.Sources:
Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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