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Lieutenant JOSHUA BIRAM CROSSLEY WIGFIELD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

74th Div. Signal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOINGT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. E. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joshua Biram Wigfield and Lizzie Roberts Wigfield, of 5, Gladstone Terrace, Grantham.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN HE SAW HIS WORK BELOW WAS DONE HE GENTLY CALLED "MY SON! MY SON!"
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Buried or commemorated at

DOINGT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 419
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