WIGGETT Harold B

  • First Name(s):
    Harold 
    B 
  • Surname:
    WIGGETT
  • Service Number:
    9081
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    30th July 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 10A and 10D.
  • Place of Birth:
    Crabbs Cross, Worcestershire resident Redditch, Worcestershire, enlisted Oxford
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

WIGGETT Harold B Is Named On These Memorials

Headless Cross The Bridge Church formerly St Luke’s Church
Redditch St George’s Church WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Redditch St George’s Church WW1 Memorial as Harold F. Wiggett. Headless Cross The Bridge Church formerly St Luke’s Church as Harold B. Wiggett.

Further Information About WIGGETT Harold B

The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger, Saturday 9th September 1916:
Missing
(9081) H. Wiggett €“ Oxford & Bucks from Redditch

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by and courtesy of Martin Stephens :  http://www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk

Private, Harold Wiggett, Service No 9081, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

On the 1901 census Harold B. Wiggett, aged 9, lived with his widowed mother Sarah E. Wiggett and his siblings in Evesham Road, Feckenham.  On the 1911 census Private Harold Wiggett aged 18, was serving with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, recorded in Detention Barracks, Commandants House, Warder’s Quarters, Marlborough Lines, Aldershot.

Harold Wiggett has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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Credits: Researched by Jillian Coombes.