Name
Charles Biggerstaff
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/03/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23299
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHIPPERFIELD (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD, KINGS LANGLEY
16 metres west of centre of church - gable end.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Chipperfield Village War Memorial. St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield. St Paul's Churchyard, Chipperfield.
Pre War
Charles Biggerstaff was born in 1895, in Chipperfield,
Hertfordshire, son of James Henry Biggerstaff, a Roadman and Kate (nee Bunker) Biggerstaff.
One of three children.
1901 Census records Charles aged 5, living with his parents,
sisters Annie (8) and Elsie (6 Months) at, The Common, Chipperfield, Herts.
1911 Census records Charles aged 15, working as a Farm
Labourer, living with his parents, and sister Elsie (10) at, Queen’s Road,
Chipperfield, Herts.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted at
Bedford, Bedfordshire, in November 1915, aged 22, posted to the Bedfordshire
Regiment with the service number 23299. At the time the Battalion was stationed
at Bedford, moving to Landguard, Felixstowe, Suffolk in July 1916, where the
Battalion received orders to mobilize for war, this was carried out between 10th
& 24th July 1916. The Battalion left Felixstowe Train Station on 24 July
for Southampton arriving about 6.30pm, and boarded the S.S. Inventor, arriving
at Le Havre, France the following morning the 25 July. (Becoming part of 190th
Brigade, 63rd Division). Seeing action on various parts of the Western Front,
he fought at Beaumont Hamel in November 1916. He was admitted to 149th Field
Hospital on 13 February 1917, invalided home where he died of Bronchitis at the
Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Hampshire, on 2 March 1917. He is
buried in St Paul’s Churchyard, Chipperfield, Herts. At the time he was serving
with “C” Company, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
His effects of £6-8s-10d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £5, went to his mother Kate Biggerstaff.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
