Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Ivan Boyd Sprot) good very fine £160-£200

Ivan Boyd Sprot was born on 14 September 1889, the youngest son of Edward Sprot Esq., of Drygrange, Roxburghshire, and was educated at Eton. A keen cricketer, he was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and was a fine athlete. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Cameron Highlanders from the Special Reserve on 27 May 1911, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914. Promoted Lieutenant in September of that year, he was killed in action on 23 October 1914, being shot in the temple by a sniper while leading his men on. His last words were ‘Come on, boys, come on! Let's at them!’ He is buried in Perth (China Wall) Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.