Walter Frederick Sporne

Rank:

Lance Corporal

Regimental number:

772702

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Wounded:

Yes

Date of death:

September 30th, 1918

Cemetery:

Canada Cemetery - Cambrai, France - II.F.3.

Commemorated at:

Brantford Congregational Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Norwich

Birth city:

Coltishall

Address at enlistment:

153 Bruce Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

153 Bruce Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Employer:

Grand Trunk Railway

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Cause and Place of Death: Killed in Action

BX November 18, 1918

Mrs. Walter Sporne, Mohawk road has been officially notified from Ottawa that her husband, Lance Corporal Walter Frederick Sporne was killed in action on September 30. Corporal Sporne enlisted with the 125th Battalion. He leaves a wife, one son and one daughter to mourn his loss. Corp. Sporne was formerly employed on the Grand Trunk and was a member of the Anglican Church.

BX December 4, 1918

Private Walter Frederick Sporne Was Killed Sept. 30

Mrs. W. Sporne has received the following letter of sympathy in connection with the death of her husband in action with the 75th Battalion in France on September 30.

In the field
Nov. 1, 1918

Dear Mrs. Sporne.

With regret I write to confirm the news of the death of your husband Pte. W. Sporne, 75th Battalion. He was killed in action near Cambrai on September 30, and was buried in the Canadian Military cemetery. Many officers and men of the battalion who fell that same day rest beside him. It was a fateful day for the battalion, as only the acting O.C. and the acting M.O. and 67 men came through unwounded, but the results of the fighting are seen in the successful advance now being made which promises to result in an immediate peace. In all your sorrow, it will be a satisfaction to remember that your husband gave his life and thereby made the supreme sacrifice while doing his duty to the full for King and Country and to humanity in their great need. For those who there fell a high place and a new reward must be in store in the next life. For the world, too, some great blessing must be coming to compensate in a measure for all the sorrow and suffering and sacrifice involved in the cruel war. On behalf of the officers and men of the battalion, I render to you the sincerest sympathy and with all earnest prayers that you may be sustained in your great sorrow by the consolation which our Christian faith affords.

I remain, yours truly,

Major W.L. Baynes Reed,
Chaplain 75th Battalion, C.E.F.

BX February 16, 1918

Wounded

Mrs. W.F. Sporne, 168 Dundas Street, has received word that her husband, Lance Corporal Walter Frederick Sporne, has been wounded and is now in the County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, near St. Albans, England.