Notes
The Roll lists his address as School Lane, Werrington.
(CWGC records that Private John William Spridgeon, regimental number 14826, died on 26/9/1916 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial in France. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that John's father Joseph was his legatee. John's Army service file records that he was a native of Werrington who was aged 23 years and 4 months when he enlisted on 7/9/1914; he was sent to France on 26/7/1915, and was killed in action 26/9/1916. The file records that John's next of kin were his 'parents' Joseph and Emma Spridgeon of School Lane, Werrington. In fact, Joseph and Emma were his grandparents, not his parents. John's birth was registered in the Peterborough District in 1891. On both the 1901 and 1911 census he was recorded as being the grandson of Joseph and Emma Spridgeon, with whom he was living in School Lane, Werrington).