Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Leslie Albert Spragg (Private)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Leslie Albert
Surnames: Spragg
Date of Death: 05/12/1940
Age at Death Years: 28
Grave Type: War Grave
Military Rank: Private
Map Reference Number: RSHG 038 A3
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section F Plot 1649
Grave Description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone, white marble kerbs and grey granite chipped top. Inscribed lettering on headstone, painted black letters on kerbs. Tablet at foot of grave and flower holder in middle inscribed DAD in black letters (unsure if this belongs to this grave).
Grave Condition Description: Very good
Old Website Grave ID: 555

Inscription:

Headstone
6027692 PRIVATE
L. A. SPRAGG
THE ESSEX REGIMENT
5TH DECEMBER 1940 AGE 28

ALSO HIS STEPFATHER
HUBERT FORD
31ST DECEMBER 1972 AGE 74

(south kerb)
IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MOTHER FRANCES MARY FORD WHO PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 9TH 1977 IN HER 92ND YEAR

(north kerb)
IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MOTHER JUNE EILEEN SAVVIDES WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 13TH 2006 IN HER 79TH YEAR

(tablet)
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MARY
ROSE
STITCHER
27.2.1957
28.6.2011
DEARLY MISSED
MOTHER, SISTER, WIFE
AND GRANNY

(flower holder)
DAD
1960.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Spragg & Ford (May 2004)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Spragg, Ford & Savvides (Jan 2017)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral.
''The Obituary and funeral report from the IW County Press.''

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