Frank Redgate Piggin

'In proud remembrance of Leading Airman Frank Redgate Piggin RNVR Fleet Air Arm killed at Arbroath December 10th 1941 aged 19 years. Beloved son of Frank and Sarah Rachel Piggin. Their name liveth for evermore.’ Nottingham Evening Post, 15 December 1941: ‘Nottingham Airman’s Funeral. The funeral of Leading Naval Airman Frank Redgate Piggin, the 19 year-old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Piggin, of Chestnut-grove, Nottingham, news of whose death, while on war service, was received by his parents on Thursday last, took place to-day, the service held in St Andrew’s Church, being conducted by the rev. R Deaville (vicar) and canon J Waring, of Rotherham (formerly vicar of St Andrew’s parish). The family mourners were Mr and Mrs Frank Piggins, father and mother, Sec. Lt. SR Piggin RA and Miss MS Piggin, brother and sister, and Mr and Mrs J B Piggin, Mr and Mrs TS Piggin, Miss F Piggin, Mrs M Beckett and Miss A Brentnall, uncles and aunts.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). See NEP 12 December 1941 for report of the death of Frank Piggin. Another of Frederic's nephews died in the Second World War, Stirtevant Frederic Piggin, the son of his brother Stirtevant: Newspaper report and photograph (NZ publication): ‘Papatoetoe Naval Officer. News that their son, Lieutenant Stirtevant Frederic (Eric) Piggin RNVR (Imperial) has been reported missing, presumed killed, on active service, has been received by Mr and Mrs S Piggin, of St George Street, Papatoetoe, only a week after having advice of his promotion. Lieutenant Piggin, who was 25 [CWGC-24], was educated at the Paptoetoe school and Sacred Heart College, he was a keen member of the St George’s Rowing Club, and left New Zealand in 1940 as a member of a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve draft for training in Britain. Two brothers are serving in the Armed Forces.’ Stirtivant RNZNVR was serving in the Tribal Class destroyer, HMS Punjabi, when on 1 May 1942 in the waters off the west coast of Ireland she was rammed and cut in two by the battleship King George V. Only a few of Punjabi's crew survived. Stirtevant's body was not recovered for burial and he is commemorated on the New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.

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