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With thanks to Historian Debbie Cameron for telling me about Walter and thanks to Walter’s cousin, Philip Spradbery, who has a lifelong passion for painting, who kindly supplied additional information and to Sergio Sbalchiero for finding paintings by Walter.
Walter Ermest Spradbery was born on 29th March 1889 in East Dulwich, London, UK.His parents were Joseph Spradbery and his wife Emily Spradbery, nee Feltham. Walter had a brother, Charles V., b. 1879. Walter studied at Walthamstow Art School, then worked as an art teacher.
Walter e spradbery biography books
He regularly exhibited his work at the Royal Academy. His main artistic media were water colour, linocuts and poster design. Walter designed posters for London transport companies and for British Rail.
During the First World War, Walter, who was a pacifist, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as a medical orderly and stretcher-bearer on the Western Front.
He served with 36 Field Ambulance during the Somme Offensive in 1916