Private Wilfred Chappell Spring who served with 3/4th Lincolnshire Regiment, was the son of John and Frances Spring of South Luffenham, where he was born. According to George Phillips in Rutland and the Great War he was employed as a footman before he enlisted on 16 November 1915. He died on 24 June 1916, not in battle but from meningitis, at Rimac Camp, Saltfleet, near Grimsby where he was training (see map below for location). Medical records from the time show he was put into isolation, initially with suspected scabies. On the morning of Thursday 22 June he was seen by Captain J Finelay of the RAMC who reported that Wilfred was complaining of a headache and was given some medicine. The following day he did not report sick and Captain Finelay said he was told he was better. But on the Friday night Wilfred became delirious and died at 4.15am before Captain Finelay arrived back to treat him. Wilfred's death certificate shows he died in a tent at Saltfleet R. D. from cerebral meningitis. It says his "probable" age was 18 and he had been a foundry labourer before joining up. Wilfred was buried in South Luffenham Cemetery four days later and for more than a hundred years did not have a headstone. Wilfred's unmarked grave was identified by Rutland Remembers in 2015. A group of villagers set to work to prove Wilfred was entitled to a military headstone and in 2018 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission erected one over his grave. A ceremony was held in May 2018 to dedicate his headstone which was attended by more than 50 villagers and dignitaries. Members of Wilfred's family now living in Sheffield were able to be there to see him commemorated at last (see pictures below).