Richard lived at Underbank, he had two brothers, Stuart and Gary, and a sister Jill. The eldest son of Fred Spencer who ran a garage at Todmorden for many years. Trained as a motor technician and worked for nAA, BMW and Mazda. Last heard of living in…
Uncle of Charles Marshall, Roy was killed in action at the battle of Narvik in 1940.
The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north…
He was a member of Brearley Baptist Chapel in the 1950s. As he is wearing his ARP (Air Raid Precautions) badge he was possibly an Air Raid Warden during WW2. The ARP disbanded in 1946 and was reconstituted as part of the Civil Defence Corps in 1948.