14048 Pte John F Spilsbury, 1st Bn, Wilts Regt

14048 Private John Frederick Spilsburyof the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, died on the 4th July 1916.

John was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, and was living in Birmingham at the outbreak of the war. He enlisted there in September 1914, originally joining the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, but tranferring to the Wiltshire Regiment probably in December 1914 or January 1915. He arrived overseas in France on the 21st September 1915 but died in England on the 4th July the following year. Soldiers Died in The Great War simply states that he "died" which almost certainly means that he died as a result of sickness. He is buried in Birmingham's Yardley Cemetery.

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