He was the son of the Reverend Henry Coleridge Spring and Constance Paynter, his father being a Chaplain to the Bengal establishment.
[6] A commission into the regular army followed later that year, when he was appointed second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 3 September 1902.
[8] He fought in the First World War, was promoted to major in 1917 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order that same year.
[4] Spring made his first-class debut for Somerset in a County Championship match against Lancashire in 1909.
[10] In 1912, he played his first first-class match for the Army, scoring 117 in the second innings against the Royal Navy at Lord's.