Edward Stephen Spooner

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Grave/Memorial:  		Spooner, E S

1882, Woking, Surrey

Stephen and Mary Ann (née Stevens)

1/7th and 7th Battalions, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

7552 / 279006

Private

23 April 1917, France, age 35

Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France: I. B. 64 		      

Biography:
Edward Stephen Spooner was born, in Woking, in 1882. He was the son and second child of Stephen and Mary Ann (née Stevens). He had three
brothers. Edward’s mother died when he was five and his father remarried (to Mary Ann’s younger sister); they had a son, giving Edward a half-brother.

After leaving school, Edward worked as a grocer’s assistant.

Edward married Florence Ada Burnard, in 1909. They had a son and a daughter. In the 1911 census Edward’s occupation is given as ‘Dispenser to a
Specialist in Epilepsy’.
Edward Stephen Spooner was killed on 23 April 1917. He is buried, in grave I. B. 64, within the Level Crossing
Cemetery, Fampoux, France.

 		     


Fampoux village was taken by the 4th Division (passing through the 9th (Scottish) Division) on 9
April 1917.

Level Crossing Cemetery, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, was begun in June 1917 when a
number of graves of April and May were brought in from the battlefield. It was used until March
1918 and two further burials were made in October 1918. In addition to the 9th and 51st
Divisions, the 15th (Scottish) Division fought in the area, and over half the graves are those of
soldiers of Scottish regiments.

Level Crossing Cemetery contains 405 burials and commemorations of the First World War.
29 of the burials are unidentified and a special memorial commemorates one casualty believed to
be buried in this cemetery.