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
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Home Park Mill, Kings Langley, Langleybury Village Memorial, Hunton Bridge, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials, Not on the Chipperfield memorials
Pre War
Arthur Joseph Biggerstaff was born in 1899, in Chipperfield, Herts, the son of Alfred and Emma Biggerstaff (nee Hathaway), and was baptised on 1 October 1899 at Chipperfield. He was the eldest of six children, Gertrude (b.1901), George (b.1903), Albert (b.1906), Alfred (b.1909), and Joseph (b.1912).
On the 1901 Census. the family were living at Hunton Bridge, Langleybury, Herts where his father was working as a general labourer. They remained there in 1911 at which time Arthur, aged 12, was at school and his father was working as a bricklayer's labourer.
Prior to enlistment he was employed by the paper manufacturer, John Dickinson & Co, at Home Park Mill in Kings Langley, Herts, and was recorded as living in Abbots Langley when he enlisted.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Bedford, Bedfordshire, and was posted to the 13th Machine Gun Company (Infantry), with the Regimental Number 108026.
He was killed in action on 26 October 1917. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3. His mother received pay owing of £2 3s 2d and a pension of 9 shillings a week, later transferred to his father on her death in 1929. Their address on pension records was given as Gallows Hill, Abbotts Langley, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild,
