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SpriggHCaptainFrontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879Cape Mounted Yeomanry
SpriggHCaptainFrontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1877-8-9Frontier Mounted Rifles
SpriggHCaptainFrontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1877-8Kaffrarian Volunteers
SpriggHowardMajor He was born at Ipswich, 26 June 1845, and is younger brother of Sir J Gordon Sprigg, whom he joined on his farm on the Cape frontier in 1863. He was farming and teaching until 1882, except during his campaigning periods. In 1873 he raised a troop of Kaffrarian Volunteers at Maclean, and was appointed to the command with rank of Lieutenant, becoming captain in 1876; transferred to Frontier Mounted Rifles in 1877, and to 1st Cape Yeomanry in Sep, 1878 served in these corps through all the native wars of 1877-8-9, and Basuto War of 1880-1, with local rank of Major during last few months; was mentioned in despatches several times by Comdt. (now General) Brabant and General C M Clarke, and held many staff appointments during these wars. The Yeomanry being disbanded at end of 1881, he was gazetted as Captain Cape Infantry in 1882, and served in that regiment and Cape Mounted Riflemen till 1894, all the time in the Native Territories. On the latter date was transferred to Civil Service, and appointed RM of Bizana, Pondoland, where he remained till February, 1905, when he had to retire on account of ill health, being specially thanked by the Govt, for services. Major Sprigg has no particular recreations, and has been a local preacher (not connected with any particular denomination) for more than twenty years. He married in 1874 Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of J O Bate, of East London, Cape Colony.Cape Mounted Rifles
SpriggJ1609PrivateSlightly wounded. Wilmansrust, 12 June 1901
Mounted Rifles
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll		Victoria contingent
SpriggJ GordonEx-Prime Minister of Cape Colony
482 of 580 awards		Unknown
SpriggJames1609PrivateSource: OZ-Boer databaseVictoria, 5th Mounted Rifles Contingent
SpriggJohn GordonHe was born at Ipswich, in 1830; Sir Gordon started business in a shipbuilder's office, afterwards joined Gurney's shorthand staff, and in 1858 went to South Africa for the benefit of his health. He settled in the Division of East London (CO), and entered the Cape Parliament as member for East London in 1873. He was appointed Colonial Secretary, and Premier on the dismissal of Sir J C Molteno in 1878, and resigned in 1881 on the Basuto question. In 1884 he became Treasury General in Sir Thomas Upington's Ministry, and succeeded him as Premier in 1886. In the following year Mr Sprigg, as he then was, was made KCMG, and soon after was appointed Privy Councillor. Sir Gordon resigned in 1890, but on the reconstrnction of the Rhodes Ministry in 1893 he joined it as Treas., and was practically Acting Premier. On Mr Rhodes' retirement in Jan 1896, he became actual Premier until Oct 1898. In June, 1900, he succeeded Mr W P Schreiner as Premier, also combining the office of Treas. In the general election in Feb, 1904, Sir Gordon was defeated by Dr Smartt at Fast London (Cape Colony) by a majority of 9S4, and the Progressives being in a majority in the new House of SO against the Bond 4S, he tendered his resignation of the Premiership, Dr Jameson being called upon to form a new Ministry. Formerly the political chief of the Progressives, he was throughout the difficult times following the Boer War accused of pandering to the Bond party, whose tolerance only enabled him to maintain a majority, he being repudiated by five sixths of the Progressives, who seceded on the Suspension question. It is certainly on record that Sir Gordon and his entire Ministry voted with the Bond on more than one occasion. This alliance, however, was simply a makeshift, and although it suited the Bond party to keep Sir Gordon in power, it did not deter that organisation from assisting in four Govt, defeats on divisions during the last short session of 1902. He created much dissatisfaction amongst his earlier followers by his refusal to sanction a fresh registration of voters in view of the fact that in many districts hundreds of disfranchised voters were still on the register as late as Sept 1902 On the occasion of his defeat (November 8, 1902) on the question of increasing the Cape Colonial Forces, however, Sir Gordon Sprigg's appeal to the Bond caused their withdrawal of the amendment and the passing of the vote as originally printed; and elicited the Premier's thanks to the Bond for its generosity. Since then Sir Gordon has been wavering in his allegiance between the Bond and the Progressives, and has thus not been a source of strength to the Loyalists in Cape Colony, although his dogged adhesion to office in the face of many real difficulties may have saved them from still greater dangers. Sir Gordon is a practised and effective Parliamentary debater, and has cultivated a leas aggressive manner than marked the parliamentary methods of his earlier political days. His range of ideas cannot be said to be broad, but his devotion to the business of the Colony has always been most exemplary. He was created GCMG on the occasion of the King's Coronation; he is DCL of Oxford, and Hon LLD of Edin University He is a widower, having married a daughter of Mr J Fleischer. Lady Sprigg died in 1900.Unknown
SpriggW GSource: QSA Medal RollsSoldiers' Christrian Association
SpriggWill GordonBorn Aug 14, 1866, at Melbourne, where he was educated. He is a nephew of Sir J Gordon Sprigg, and commenced business in Melbourne; afterwards (in 1888) travelling to the Cape, where he entered the Cape Civil Service. After five years he resigned this service and returned to Melbourne, where he became associated with the YMCA. In 1894 he was appointed gen. Secretary, to the Cape Town Branch of the Association, and in 1902 took charge of the YMCA work at Johannesburg. He is also Secretary, of the SA Council of YMCAs, Travelling and Organising Secretary, for South Africa, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Witwatersrand Church Council. During the last. Boer War he worked hard in connection with the YMCA to provide comforts for the forces in the Transvaal. He married, in 1905, May Jeanette, daughter James S Goch, of Johannesburg.Unknown
SprigginsG2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Lincolnshire Regiment
SprigginsL2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Bedfordshire Regiment
SprigginsT2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Lincolnshire Regiment
SprigginsW1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		King's Royal Rifle Corps
SprigginsW1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		King's Royal Rifle Corps
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