Name
Harold William Piggott (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
71624
Royal Field Artillery
32nd Brigade, 134 Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial, Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham
Pre War
George and Amy Jane Piggott. In 1901 Harold (listed as William) was living at Hadham Cross with his widowed father. After his mother died and his father remarried Kate Snow in 1905, later of 8 Firtree Cottages, Snakes Lane, Woodford Green, Essex. They were still in Much Hadham in 1911. He was a telegraph messenger.
Wartime Service
Entered on France 23 Aug 1914. He later took part in the in the battles of the Marne and Mons. In October 1916, Harold was named in the London Gazette as having received the Military Medal whilst an acting serjeant with the R.F.A. In May 1917, the local newspaper reported that Harold William Piggott was in hospital at Etaples in France suffering from a gunshot wound. Although Harold survived this, he died four years later, between October and December 1921 in Barnet, Middlesex. This was after the official cut-off date to be classed as having died as a result of the war and so he was not named on the original war memorial, but his name has been added to the new one. Harold was living in the Barnet area at the time of his death and his father had remarried and was living in Woodford Green.
Military Medal (Gazette 29819, 10 Nov 1916 p10928).
Additional Information
Brother of Private George Edwin Piggott who was killed in action on 3 Mar 1916 and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Not in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Jonty Wild
