Serjeant 240912 Peter Rigby

Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 1st/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 13/02/1915
Previous Reg/Num: 2952, S Lancs Regt.

Age at death: 21
Date of death: 30th of November 1917 (Friday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Cambrai Memorial Louverval - Panel 7.

Family details:
Son of John Rigby, of 17, Cleveland St, Peasley Cross, St. Helens, Lancs.

Census details:
1901 - Not Identified. 1911 - Sees 14 year old 'Glass Worker' Peter living at 17 Cleveland St, Peasley Cross, St Helens with widowed father John (50) and two siblings: Eliza (19) Albert (9)

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=54]Remembered on the Peasley Cross Congregational Church Memorial[/url]

[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/SgtPeterRigby.jpg[/pic] [caption]The panel on the Cambrai Memorial bearing the inscription for Serjeant Peter Rigby (Photograph courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]