William Henry Sperry fought with the Durham Light Infanry, 15th Batallion. He 
was the eldest son of William Henry Sperry and Ada Heape. William was born in 
Leicester in 1898.

He died during the battle of the Somme, on 16/09/1916, the day after the 
tanks were fist sent in.

William never married and was only 18 when he died, less than a month before 
his younger brother Leonard Cecil Sperry was born. 

William's sacrifice is remembered on the Thiepval memorial and on a plaque 
where he was formerly employed at the Leicester Tramways and Elictricity 
Memorial, Abbey Park Road, Leicester.