Roy Spencer was dying in the mud during the Battle of Arras when Bill Snook, another soldier in his regiment from his hometown of Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador, recognized him and carried him on his back more than a kilometer to the casualty clearing station. The two remained friends after the war and Spencer credited Snook for saving his life.

He was also shot in the arm during the doomed July 1, 1916, attack that nearly wiped out the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The only photos of Spencer with both arms are those taken in his military uniform when he enlisted in December 1914 at the age of seventeen.

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