Notes
The Roll lists his address as 46 Cobden Street. It misrecords his surname as Spriggs; it was actually Sprigg.
(CWGC records that Private John William Sprigg, regimental number 41088, died on 25/11/1917 serving in the 4th Battalion of the Essex Regiment, and is commemorated on Jerusalem Memorial in Israel & Palestine. Soldiers Died in the Great War records John William Sprigg as a native of Crowle, Lincs who enlisted in Peterborough, and that he served in the Norfolk Regiment under regimental number 23740 before joining the Essex Regiment. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother, Rose Blott, was his legatee. The birth of John William Sprigg was registered in the Thorne District of Yorkshire. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Thomas and Rose Sprigg at 43 Little Peter Street in Manchester; his place of birth was given as Crowle, Lincolnshire. His father died in Peterborough in 1907; his mother married Walter Blott in 1908. On the 1911 census John Sprigg was living with his mother Rose and stepfather Walter Blott at 46 Cobden Street in Peterborough. John William Sprigg is commemorated on a stone on his parents' grave in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70061.