Spencer Bates

Service number: 933

Rank: Private

Unit: 3rd Battalion

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Spencer Bates was born in London, England and was a labourer by trade. His mother lived at Broadwater, Fairy Bower, Manly. Spencer was 28 and 6 months at enlistment on 11th August, 1914.

He embarked from Sydney on the H.M.A.T. A14 Euripides on 20th October 1914. Spencer was found to be medically unfit, suffering from rheumatism, and was discharged as permanently unfit on 30th May, 1915.

He returned on the Ulysses on 21st March, 1915 and disembarked at Melbourne on 15th April, 1915.