Edward Holt Spink
Date of birth: 1886
Date of death: 31.7.1917
Area: Knottingley
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers
Family information: Son of Alfred and Annie Susan Spink
Rank: Private
Service number: 10938
War Service
Edward Holt Spink enlisted at Pontefract into the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
The Third Battle of Ypres was an offensive mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele.
Edward Spink was killed in action on 31st July 1917 and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Panel 6 & 8.
Family Life
Edward Holt Spink was born in 1886 and baptised on 15th September 1886 at St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge. He was the son of Alfred and Annie Susan Spink who had married on 23rd June 1885, again at St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge.
In the 1911 census he is shown as an Articled Clerk living at Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge with his father, a widower, and siblings.
Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres