Biography:
James William Lennox Sprot was born 7 April 1886, the second son of Edward William Sprot of Drygrange, Roxburghshire and Marion, nee Boyd.
He came to Winchester from Elstree School in September 1899 and was in D House, Fearon's, under Mr Kensington. He left Winchester in December 1903 for the RMC at Sandhurst.
Sprot was gazetted in 1906 to the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. At the outbreak of war he was stationed on Jersey as the Adjutant of the Channel Islands Militia, and had been married there, on 11 November 1909, to Romer Bishop, daughter of Colonel Edward Bishop. They had two children. His son James Edward Kenneth Sprot came to Winchester (I 1924-9128) and served in the Black Watch, the RNVR and the Royal Artillery during WW2.
Sprot's battalion was sent out to France with a draft of reinforcements to the Ypres Salient in early November 1914 and Sprot was killed a few days after his arrival in a German attack south of Polygon Wood, near Ypres. He was killed on 11 November 1914, his fifth wedding anniversary. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on Panel 37 of the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.