William Rigg
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Parents: John (deceased) and Mary E Rigg of 6 Fisher's Yard, Portland Street, Mansfield.
William served with the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment), and was killed on 16 September 1917.
He was buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2 (grave ref. XXXVII.C.8).
William Rigg's nephew, his sister's son, P/SX 28984 Ordinary Seaman Bernard Slack, served in the Royal Navy and died when HMS Esk was sunk by a mine on 1 September 1940. Bernard's cousin, Graham Harold Slack (their fathers were brothers), served with the 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters and taken prisoner of war by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1941. He died in a prison camp of malaria on 14 October 1943. Graham's father had served with the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters in the Great War and been killed on 16 October 1916. (See records on this Roll of Honour)
CWGC Additional information: Son of Mary E. Rigg, of 6, Frislys Yard, Portland St., Mansfield.
William Rigg
Mansfield Nottingham Road Cemetery - commemorated on his parents' headstone.
William Rigg
William Rigg
Buried in Serre Road Cemetery No 2. Photograph Murray Biddle