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Lieutenant JOHN GEOFFREY BIGGS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Somerset Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. C. 19.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment seconded to the 53rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of John Maundy Biggs (Surgeon) and Florence Elizabeth Biggs, of Child's Hill. London.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF A BRAVE AND GALLANT SON AND BROTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2106
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