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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Middlesbrough
• Land Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of Herbert and Mary Bigland, of Park Villas, Middlesbrough, Yorks.; one brother, Ronald, also enlisted but survived the war; two sisters, Laura and Lily
• Education Ackworth School (1905-1908) and Middlesbrough High School
• Extra info Commemorated on the Middlesbrough High School memorial plaque and on a headstone in the Quaker municipal cemetery, within Linthorpe cemetery, Middlesbrough;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Redcar
• Service number 14410
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
• Other data related to military career To France 13 July 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - DD - 4

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