Notes
The Roll lists his address as 187 Fletton Avenue. It misrecords his regimental number as 90900.
(CWGC records that Private A Spreckley, regimental number 99099, died on 15/2/1918 serving in 272nd Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps, and is buried in grave A.130 at Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Arthur was residing in Peterborough when he enlisted in Bedford, and that he served in the Bedfordshire Regiment under regimental number 37562 before joining the Machine gun Corps. His Medal Index Card records only his service in the Machine Gun Corps under regimental number 99099. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father William C Spreckley was his legatee. Arthur Spreckley's birth was registered in the Peterborough District in 1898. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents William and Elizabeth at 14 Duke Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Stanground).