William Garbutt Spurgeon
The name William Garbutt Spurgeon is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in New cemetery, Neuilly sur Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
There are 382 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
William Garbutt Spurgeon was buried in 1926. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
William Garbutt Spurgeon age is given as 41.
William Garbutt Spurgeon birth is given as 1885.
William Garbutt Spurgeon is listed on the GPR grave numbered 341030.
William Garbutt Spurgeon is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
William Garbutt Spurgeon has the record number 726820 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 13 October 2013
There is one image available for the monument listing William Garbutt Spurgeon (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against William Garbutt Spurgeon record:
Inscription: Ex-leading torpedoman of the British navy. According to the British National Archives; he was born in Bethnal Green in London in 1885. NB In 2013; this grave was due to be respossessed. Father William Andrews b1829, mother Frances Spurgeon b1864 - common law partnership as William's father separated from wife Hannah Roe and never married Frances. Big age gap. Frances from a broken home where father James Neavesey spent most of his life in jail or transported for minor theft. Frances's mother was Mary Ann Carver Spurgeon. William had two brothers, Louis and Andrew, both killed in WW1, and one sister Florence who married a George Wade. Probably one more sister Lily who died as an infant. William signed up to the Navy in 1903 and remained in the Navy until 1919. He died in France at Boulevard Victor Hugo 63, Neuilly sur Seine, which is the American Hospital, Paris. Occupation was valet de chambre - French death records have his home at Lowestoft and parents with their surnames reversed. He was brought up with William as his father but actual father may have been a Garbutt. Circumstances of death unknown.