Spencer Francis Kittelty (SN 8494) was born in Young, NSW and was an iron moulder when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 13th 1915 at the age of 21. He embarked from Sydney aboard the Runic on January 20th 1916. He disembarked in Egypt where, in March 1916, he was admitted to hospital in Alexandria suffering from dysentery. He served in Egypt with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance until January 1917 when he was transferred to the 5th Field Ambulance in France. He had only been in France for a month when he was evacuated to the Woking Military Hospital in England suffering from trench feet. He returned to France in October 1917 and served out the remainder of the war. He returned to Australia as a member of the nursing staff on the Armagh, disembarking at Melbourne on May 18th 1919. He was discharged on July 2nd 1919.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Spencer J. Kittlety.