Name
Samuel James Bigg
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10677
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. F. 26.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Eastwick War Memorial
Pre War
Samuel James Bigg was born in Edwardstone, Suffolk in 1887. One of seventeen children born to Edward and Anna Maria Bigg. In 1911, he was living in Knotting Green, Bedfordshire working as a 2nd Gamekeeper.
Wartime Service
Samuel joined the 6th (Service) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment and arrived in France on 30/07/15. He later transferred to the 1/Beds.
Company 'A' and a Platoon from B-Company of the 1/Beds attacked at Les Lauriers, France at 9.30pm on the 25/04/18, and had 1OR (Other Rank) killed and 20 OR’s wounded. On the 26/04/18 the War Diary reports ‘Situation quiet 3 OR’s Wounded’.
Additional Information
His brothers Arthur and Edward also died during the war and are commemorated on the Eastwick memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Anthony Hodgkins
