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Signalman WILLIAM JOSEPH BIGDEN

Service Number: 5730432
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 18 March 1941

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCARBOROUGH (MANOR ROAD) CEMETERY

Sec. U. Row 4. Grave 19.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Lottie Agnes Bigden, of Shoreditch, London; husband of Ethel Eileen Bigden and father of Jean Bigden, of Stepney, London, who were killed in the same incident.
  • Personal Inscription HIS WIFE ETHEL EILEEN AGE 24 AND BABY JEAN, 15 MONTHS WERE KILLED WITH HIM AND REST HERE
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