Sunday 14 February 2010

2189 Pte John Sproul, 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regt

Three hundred and sixty five British Army officers and men died on this single day - Valentine's Day - in 1916. 2189 Private John Sproul of the 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment was killed in action on the 14th February.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was serving with Y Company at the time of his death and that he was 20 years old and the son of Alexander and Helen Sproul, of 36, Aire Street, South Bank, Yorkshire. He was a native of Leith, Scotland and is buried in the Railway Dug-outs Burial Ground 2kms south east of Ypres town centre.

John Sproul's number dates to September 1914 and he enlisted at Stokesley. He first arrived overseas on the 18th April 1915.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

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