WWI Lookup please

[Fenetta]

Hello,

I have been away from the computer for a few months    but I am back again to hunt for another day!!!!

Have just posted  topic on the Armed Forces section instead of this one.
So here goes again.!!!!

THANKS for your help in the past.

Still looking for GRANDFATHER JOHN (WALTER M.) SPRIGGS, born 1889 Dover, Kent.  He supposedly died in WW1 but I cant prove anything. 

Have no current subscription to any pay per view sites!!! Dont live in the UK.

But Genes Reunited have shown a possible John W Spriggs died WW1, 1917
Can anyone lookup same please??  Any info on John greatly appreciated.

THANKS
Fenetta

[suegill]

on www.cwgc.org there is a John William Spriggs (details below) but not a John Walter

Name: SPRIGGS, JOHN WILLIAM
Initials: J W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cambridgeshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 31/07/1917
Service No: 326521
Additional information: Mrs. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Spriggs, of 115, Ross St., Cambridge.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 50 and 52.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Sue

[suegill]

There is also a John Spriggs

Name: SPRIGGS, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Northamptonshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 10/01/1915
Service No: 3/8655
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 28 to 30.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Sue

[mmm45]

Fenetta
Its a John Spriggs Born Dover Kent 1888 nothing about KIA 1917.on GR site.

cant find any on Soldiers Died In Great War with born Dover.

Ady

[scrimnet]

There is also a L/Cpl Spriggs W J of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry living in Hartwell Northamptonshire...He is from the National Roll...and he survived the war...

[Fenetta]

Dear Sue,
Thanks, the replies are appearing faster than I can type!!

THAT JOHN SPRIGGS looks interesting because his father Walter G. Spriggs and many of the Spriggs generations were born in Nothamptonshire.

BUT how do we KNOW if its HIM.  No wife, date of birth, or parents listed!!!

Perhaps I' ll never find him?
Thanks again,
Fenetta

[Fenetta]

Dear Scrimnet,

Could that be HIM, I don't know.  Only know I can't verify a record of his death, whether in WW1 or otherwise.  Maybe he didn't die in the war as we were told, but what then??

Thanks for your prompt and interesting reply,
Fenetta   

[scrimnet]

BTW

Sue's chap was probably in the 1/3rd  Battalion...the figure 3 at the beginning...Usually meant 3rd Bn...

He may well feature in the Northampton Independent list...That will give a photo and some details...


As an addenda...
There is also another Spriggs for you in the National Roll a Royal Navy chap from Daventry...

[scrimnet]

This may be useful...He has copied, or has access to all the WW1 pics from the Shire...

A bit expensive for what it is, but saves a trip to Wooton Hall!

http://www.northants-familytree.net/soldier%20index.htm