The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Vigus

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private Harry VIGUS, G/19361, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 3rd Canadian Clearing Station, France, 16th June 1917, age 25.

Born Dover, Kent.

18th February 1915, Croydon Register Office, Harry Vigus married Mabel Blanche Baker, spinster.

Children - Doris Phyllis Vigus, born 4th March 1910.

Enlisted Croydon, Surrey, age 25 years & 11 months, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 150lbs, scar outer side forefinger, left hand. Resided 40 West Street, Croydon, Surrey. Formerly newsagent / warehouseman.

Home 12th December 1915 to 4th May 1917; BEF 5th May 1917 to 16th June 1917.

12th December 1915, enlisted; 13th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 19th May 1916, mobilized; 3rd June 1916, posted 29th Middlesex Regiment, Service No.30534; 12th June 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; 13th June 1916, appointed Lance Corporal; 16th August 1916, appointed Acting Corporal; 23rd February 1917, posted 5th Middlesex Regiment; 5th May 1917, posted BEF as Private; 5th May 1917, Etaples, 41 Infantry Base Depot; 5th May 1917, posted 18th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; 22nd May 1917, Infantry Base Depot, transferred form 18 Middlesex Regiment to 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th June 1917, wounded, gun shot wound right thigh, right arm.

14th January 1918, pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow & one child.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, XV. F. 5., Belgium. Commemorated on Ware, Hertfordshire War Memorial.

Link to Dover War Memorial Project

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