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Pte. Edmund Herbert Sprigings
British Army 2/19th (2nd St Pancreas) Btn. London Regiment
from:Highgate, London
Edmund Sprigings was my grandfather and he and his four brothers joined the 2nd St Pancras Battalion, London Regiment. They were sent to Gallipoli and when that failed he and his brothers were sent to France where they fought at the Battle of the Somme. My grandfather was gassed but later returned to the front and in 1917 he was struck with a large piece of shrapnel on his thigh and was returned to London where he spent some time in a military hospital in Hampstead, London.
In fact all of his four brothers returned home relatively unscathed which I find incredible.

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