WILLIAM ROBERT BIGGS
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1917
Born: 1892, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 4th December 1892, at St. Nicholas Church, Ipswich – family home at Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
Died: 6th March 1917; age 24; KiA.
Residence: 37, Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: Goods Clerk for the Great Eastern Railway Goods Depot, Ipswich. Joined the company in April 1906.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Joined the Royal Field Artillery in May 1915.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 776384.
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, ‘D’ Battery, 310th Brigade, (T.F.).
In July 1919, the body was exhumed by the 117 Labour Coy, identified by a cross marking the grave, and buried at Queen’s Cemetery.
Grave Reference:
I.F.8.
Pas de Calais,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Eldest son of Robert & Julia Biggs, of Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 47, Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
William was 9 years old and living with his parents & brother.
Robert George Biggs, 34, a Leather Cutter, born Ipswich.
Julia Biggs (nee Potter), 33, born Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Herbert Philip Biggs, 3, born Ipswich.2 boarders.
1911 37, Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
William was 18 years old, a Railway Clerk.
He was living with his parents & brothers.
Robert, 44, an Engineering Labourer.
Julia, 43.
Herbert, 13.
Leonard Philip Biggs, 6, born Ipswich.
Albert Edward Biggs, 4, born Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Robert G. Biggs – father.
William is also remembered on the Great Eastern Railway war memorial, Liverpool Street Station, London, and on the war memorial at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich.
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