Notes
Recovered 31.07.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2778004/peter-spanner/
TROOPER PETER SPANNER
Service Number: 1471120
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. 44th
Date of Death 07 September 1944
Age 22 years old
Buried HEVERLEE WAR CEMETERY 2. K. 2. Belgium
Son of Percy Harry and Bessie Spanner, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. His father, Percy Harry Spanner, died 1927
His mother, Bessie Spanner, remarried, in 1936, Frederick Arthur Graves
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, September 22, 1944 Page 3
Ventnor and the War
Killed in Action
Mrs. Graves of The Cottage, Dean Crossing, Whitwell, received the distressing news on Monday that one of her sons, Trooper Peter Spanner, Royal Tank Regiment, had been killed in action in France. He was 22 years of age and single. Spanner joined the I.W. Rifles when 16 years of age and was with them in camp when war broke out. He was with the Royal Artillery at Hayling Island throughout the Battle of Britain and had only transferred to the R.T.R. about six months ago.