Name
Edward Frank Bigg
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5128
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
III. C. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Eastwick War Memorial, Hertfordshire Regiment Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Edward Frank Bigg was born in Edwardstone, Suffolk in 1895. One of seventeen children born to Edward and Anna Maria Bigg.
In 1911, he was living with his parents and two of his siblings in Chignal, nr. Chelmsford, working as a Farm Labourer.
Recorded as living in Eastwick when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Edward had joined the Herts Regt. and while they were not in action but still in the front line trenches close to the Schwaben Redoubt. They were heavily shelled with Edward dying from his wounds on 14 Oct 1916.
Additional Information
Brother Ernest enlisted in 5 Royal Fusiliers on 14 Nov 1915 transferred to Labour Corps and transferred to Labour Corps 1917 and was in France for April 1919 and demobilised May 1919. His brothers Arthur and Samuel also died during the war and are commemorated on the Eastwick memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Anthony Hodgkins
