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Lt. · 74 Divisional Signal Company Royal Engineers

Joshua Biram Crossley Wigfield

† 21/09/1918 · aged 21 · Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension, I.E.13; personal inscription: WHEN HE SAW HIS WORK BELOW WAS DONE HE GENTLY CALLED "MY SON! MY SON!"

Personal data

NameWigfield
InitialsJ.B.C.
Christian nameJoshua Biram Crossley
FamilySon of Joshua Biram Wigfield and Lizzie Roberts Wigfield, of 5, Gladstone Terrace, Grantham.

Military data

RankLt.
Regiment / Unit74 Divisional Signal Company Royal Engineers
Date of death
Age21
Cemetery / MemorialDoingt Communal Cemetery Extension, I.E.13; personal inscription: WHEN HE SAW HIS WORK BELOW WAS DONE HE GENTLY CALLED "MY SON! MY SON!"

Other information

Information
Died of wounds
Information 2
'The Wigfield Lamp' - Grantham Branch. Endowed on 03.11.1924. First lit on 13.12.1924 at The Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of J.B.C. Wigfield, 2nd Lt., R.E. (Signals), Peronne, 21.9.1918" (Donated by his mother and father)

Sources

Source
Liber Vitae 1928