Name
FREDERICK LEWIS BIGGERSTAFF
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
34869
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the fallen in France
UK & Other Memorials
Chipperfield Village Memorial,
St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield
Pre War
Frederick Lewis (aka Fred) Biggerstaff was born in 1888, in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, son of George Biggerstaff, a Farm Worker and Annie Elizabeth (nee Lee) Biggerstaff. One of eight children.
1891 Census records Fred aged 3, living with his parents, brother William (5), and sister Alice (10 months) in, Dunny Lane, Chipperfield, Herts.
1901 Census records Fred aged 13, working as an Errand Boy, living with his parents, and six siblings at, The Common, Chipperfield, Herts.
1911 Census records Fred aged 23, single, working as a Domestic Gardener, living with his parents, and five siblings in, Chaple Croft, Chipperfield, Herts.
He was a member of the Chipperfield Baptist Chapel.
Wartime Service
Fred enlisted at Watford, Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 26815. Later transferred to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment with the service number 34869, serving with the 10th & 9th Battalions on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on 22 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the fallen in France.
Additional Information
His effects of £8-9s-0d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £8-10s-0d, went to his father George Biggerstaff.
His younger brother Rifleman R/13465 Arthur Biggerstaff was Killed in Action on 24 August 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
