Name: Walter T Spencer
First Name(s): Walter T
Last Name: Spencer
Place of birth: Massachusetts, Middlesex Cnty, Malden
Rank: Cpl
ASN: 31302468
Company: Svc
Unit: 423rd IR 106th ID
Reported as: POW ► DNB
Date of incident: 21-12-1944
Place of incident: Schönberg area
note: On December 21, 1944 Cpl Walter T Spencer was taken POW and imprisoned in Stalag IV-B Mühlberg, Landkreis Elbe-Elster, Brandenburg, Germany.
According to German records he died most likely from malnutrition in a Lazarett in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany, on April 4, 1945. It can be assumed he died during a forced march when the Allied prisoners were evacuated to the west, away from the Russian advance.
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