Walter Horace Spragg

Posts : 3458 Join date : 2021-01-04

A case of PTSD perhaps?

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Pall Mall Gazette - Wednesday 13 January 1915

This from a longer article in the Daily News (London) - Wednesday 13 January 1915
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Subject: Re: Walter Horace Spragg Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:37 pm

The only one I could find in the 1881 Census

Walter Horace Spragg born 1864, Clerkenwell Middlesex, at the time of census he is listed as a Carpenter. That would make him 15 years old in 1879, Drummer boy maybe? Being so young, acting like a child later in life ??

Father Walter born 1835, London
Mother Marion born 1835 Windsor.

5xSiblings, only one sister as mentioned in the article.
One brother being named August, born1856, Bloomsbury.

It's unlikely, but the article states the brother as Augustus.
Also for this to be him his age in the article has to be a mistake, as this man would be 51 in 1915.

Posts : 3458 Join date : 2021-01-04

Thanks Eddie Salute

Posts : 1069 Join date : 2009-10-16

Hi All,
Walter Horace Spragg dies from his probate 12 March 1936 address 375 Ley Street Ilford, His brother Augustus Charles Spragg dies 1915 in West Ham District.
Rai Keynshamlighthorse.

» Could this be Horace Smith-Dorrien.
» Horace Smith-Dorrien
» Victoria Cross’s recommended. But not nominated.