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The Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium

 


James William Lennox Sprott

Captain James William Lennox Sprot
2nd Battalion attd 1st Battalion. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
11/11/1914


1914 Star

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Sprot, of Drygrange, Roxburghshire. husband of Romer L. H. Sprot, of Spott House, Dunbar, East Lothian. Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. Adjt. Channel Islands Militia prior to Aug., 1914.

Former Permanent Staff Adjutant of 1st (West) Battalion RMIJ.

Killed in action, aged 28 years.

At 8pm every evening, the Last Post is played inside the Menin Gate in remembrance.

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