Name
Frederick William Spriggs
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14200
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
XXIX. J. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Lemsford Village Memorial, Not on the Hatfield memorials
Pre War
Frederick William Spriggs, the one of five sons of William, an agricultural labourer, and Elizabeth (née Hewson), he was born in the 4th April 1889 in Lemsford.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, elder brothers John (born 1885), Frank (born 1888), George and younger brother Frederick (born 1897) were living at Lemsford, Hatfield. On the 1911 Census Frederick was living with his widowed mother, and his brothers at Lemsford, Hatfield. George and John worked with horses on a farm and Frank was an ordinary farm labourer, Frederick was at school. Walter Hewson was also present, a farm labourer, he had been born in 1880 in Wheathampstead to Elizabeth Hewson prior to her marriage to William Spriggs in 1885.
Wartime Service
Frederick was killed on the 11th July 1916 and is buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No. 2.
Additional Information
His older brother, George Thomas Spriggs was killed on 29th October 1917. He is buried in the Zantvoorde British Cemetery, Zonnebeke,West-Vlaanderen, Belgium reference III E 25. Zonnebeke is a town 8 km south east of Ieper (Ypres)
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Andy Chapman & www.lemsfordww1.co.uk
