Notes
The Roll of Honour does not list his address. It states he died on 27/9/1915, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Richard Spriggs, regimental number G/7831, died aged 33 on 28/9/1915 serving in the 9th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, and is commemorated on Loos Memorial in France. They record him as the husband of Mary Ann Follows (formerly Spriggs) of 21 Jarrom Street, Leicester. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Whittlesey who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died between 25th and 28th September 1915 and that his widow Mary Ann Follows was his legatee. His Medal Index Card records that he was sent to France on 31/8/1915, and that he was killed in action on 28/9/1915. Richard Spriggs' birth was registered in Whittlesey in 1882. On the 1881 census his parents Sarah and Moses Spriggs had been living in Whittlesey; Moses died in 1885. On the 1891 census Richard Spriggs and his widowed mother were living with relatives in Wistow, Huntingdonshire. Richard Spriggs' marriage to Mary Ann Revell was registered in North Witchford District in 1902. On the 1911 census he was living with his wife and their children at Holme Fen near Peterborough; he gave his place of birth as Whittlesey and stated he had been married 9 years. When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 6/11/1915 his widow's address was reported as 12 Shropshire Place, Peterborough. Richard was reported to have been serving in the Army for nine months, having formerly worked for Peterborough Corporation).