Name
Arthur Joseph Biggerstaff
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
108026
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
13th Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 154 to 159 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the fallen in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Home Park Mill, Kings Langley, Langleybury Village Memorials, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials, Not on the Chipperfield memorials
Pre War
Arthur Joseph Biggerstaff was born in 1899, in Chipperfield, Herts, son of Alfred Clark Biggerstaff (B 1879) and Emma Jane Biggerstaff (B 1875) (nee Hathaway). The eldest of five children, Gertrude (B 1901), George (B 1903), Albert (B 1906) and Alfred (B 1909). He was Baptised on 1st October 1899, in Chipperfield, Herts.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 2, living with his parents, and sister Gertrude, in Hunton Bridge, Langleybury, Herts.
1911 Census has Arthur aged 12, at School, living with his parents and four siblings, in Hunton Bridge, Langleybury, Herts.
He was employed by the paper manufacturer, John Dickinson & Co, at there Home Park Mill in Kings Langley, Herts. as was recorded as living in Abbots Langley when he enlisted.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Bedford, Bedfordshire, and posted to the Machine Gun Company (Infantry), with the Regimental Number 108026.
He was Killed in Action on 26th October 1917, he has no known grave is commemorated on the “Tyne Cot Memorial” to the fallen in Belgium.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £2-8s-5d, Pay Owing of which 5/3, went to a, R. P. Neil and £2-3s-2d, to his mother Emma. £3, War Gratuity went to his father Alfred. His father Alfred was awarded a Dependents Pension of 9/- a week from from 30th April 1918, his father address was given as Gallows Hill, Abbotts Langley, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
