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Eric Joseph Spraggon

1893-1948

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1312

About

Born in New Zealand

24 February 1893
Parent

Father

T. R. Spraggon
Residence

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Carpenter

Employer

W. E. Hutchinson, Nelson Street, Auckland
Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 55

28 September 1948

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5553 57/0108167, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Eric Joseph Spraggon (1893-1948)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/798

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