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William Lewis Wigan

 William Lewis Wigan

Person details

Forename(s) William Lewis
Surname Wigan
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Age 20
Death Died of shrapnel wounds
Place of Death Flanders
Date of Death 23/02/1916
Year of Entry 1909
House Letter E
School Notes
Comments 1st (attached 8th) Battalion. Reg: Died of wounds rec'd near Ypres. Obituary in Radleian of 03/04/1916
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit
Prefect
Military Decorations
Album Number 8
Battle Unknown engagement
Previous Regiment -
Additional Notes Added to Imperial War Museum 'Faces of World War One' project and Radley College War Memorial Flickr website on 11 March 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radley_college_war_memorial/
Burial or Cemetery LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. II. A. 39.
Place of Birth East Malling, Kent
Post School Sandhurst
Shields in Hall