WW1 100 Years on - William James Riggs

Name	William James Riggs
Address	Holworth
Date of Birth Place	1890 Yetminster
Date of Death Place	23 April 1918 Somme, France Buried with 78 other Commonwealth soldiers at Longpre-les-Corps Saints is a village on the main road from Abbeville to Amiens
Family Info	Son of Henry William (Labourer) and Annie Maria Riggs nee Knight, of Holworth, near Broadmayne, Dorchester. Their third son. Siblings: John b.1886, Walter William b. 1888, George Thomas b. 1893 Frederick James b. 1895, Hilda Blanche b.1898, Arthur Robert b. 1900 Bessie b.1902, Albert Edward b.1905
Military Information: Killed in April 1918 died of wounds Driver William James Riggs 92nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Service Number 11553 Aged 28
Further Information:  Before the war he was a carter on a farm His brother Walter William was also killed in 1915 He was baptised on 7 September 1890 at Beer Hackett, Dorset

 

100 Years ago the death of Wilfred Owen - War Poet

4 November 1918

Wilfred Owen, wrote some of the best British poetry of World War I, composing nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. In November 1918 he was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, one week before the Armistice.