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Corporal Samuel Edward Rigby

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1885-02-08
Place of birth: Birmingham Warwickshire England
Next of kin: Mr Alfred Rigby, (Brother), 67 Arthur Street, Windsor, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Sailor
Address: 24 Alymer Street, Windsor, Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Date of death: 1917-04-09
Cause of death: Killed in action
Buried: La Chaudiere Military Cemetery, VIII. B. 13.

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 214327
Highest Rank: Corporal
Rank detail
  1. Corporal (Army). 1916-08-28 to 1917-04-09
  2. Private (Army). 1916-07-06 to 1916-08-28
  3. Private (Army). 1916-04-25 to 1916-07-06
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Attack West of Thelus

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 80847
LAC ID: 618230
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B8277-S004
Uploader's Research notes:

Source: The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 1914 - 1919 (1926, Captain S.G.Bennett)

War Diaries

Nominal Rolls - broken line

RMS Olympic

Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database

[Private Army Canadian Infantry 99th Battalion Sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on the 2nd of June 1916 onboard the R.M.S Olympic. Private Army Canadian Infantry 35th Battalion Corporal Army Canadian Mounted Rifles 4th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-04-15