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cmf

Sep 2 2009, 08:57 PM

Hi all,

Carlisle Journal, Friday July 9th, 1915, p8

"Lieutenant Rigby, Royal Field Artillery, has died in Colchester Military Hospital from the effects of a bicycle collision with another cyclist."

Searched CWGC, and Rigsby, Digby, but have drawn a blank????

Ideas???? ODGW????? Deaths registered Colchester June/ July 1915???

Ta,

Chris

rflory

Sep 2 2009, 09:12 PM

Lt Richard Clive Rigby, Bombay Volunteer Artillery
Born on 22 Oct 86
Educated at St. Lawrence School from 1896 to 1900 and at Haileybury from 1900 to 1904
Died from accident in Calcutta on 5 April 1915.

Regards, Gunner 1

cmf

Sep 2 2009, 09:30 PM

Thanks Gunner 1

Hmmm, Calcutta/ Colchester

BVA/ RFA

?????

Either way, he doesn't seem to be on CWGC . . .

David Porter

Sep 2 2009, 09:55 PM

The only Rigby death registered in Colchester at that time is this one.

Deaths Sep 1915
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Rigby Thomas S 52 Colchester 4a 676

chrisharley9

Sep 2 2009, 10:42 PM

QUOTE (rflory @ Sep 2 2009, 10:12 PM)

Probably not embodied at the time of his death so therefore no CWGC commemoration

Chris

apwright

Sep 3 2009, 10:37 AM

QUOTE (David Porter @ Sep 3 2009, 12:55 AM)

The only Rigby death registered in Colchester at that time is this one.

Deaths Sep 1915
------------------------------------------------
Rigby Thomas S 52 Colchester 4a 676

Looks promising...

Thomas Steventon RIGBY, born Mile End Q2 1863. Son of Thomas and Mary A, of 115 Mile End Rd, Stepney (in 1901). Occupation Election Agent.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 17, 1902
VOLUNTEER CORPS.
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY (VOLUNTEERS).
1st Essex, Lieutenant E. B. Baker resigns his Commission. Dated 18th June, 1902.
Thomas Steventon Rigby, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 18th June, 1902.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1908
TERRITORIAL FORCE.
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
1st Essex Battery, 2nd East Anglian Brigade; the undermentioned officers, from the 1st Essex Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers), are
appointed to the battery, with rank and precedence as in the Volunteer Force. Dated 1st April, 1908 :-
Captain and Honorary Major Edgar Percival Bidwell. (To be supernumerary.)
Captain Harold Jolly. (To be supernumerary.)
Lieutenant Robert Andrew Hatton.
Lieutenant Thomas Steventon Rigby.

In the 1911 Census he's a Parliamentary Election Agent boarding at 1 Rectory Sq, Stepney.

Adrian

EDIT to add:

THE LONDON GAZETTE, 9 OCTOBER, 1914
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.
1st London Brigade; Thomas Steventon Rigby (late Lieutenant, 2nd East Anglian Brigade) to be Lieutenant. Dated 25th September, 1914.

cmf

Sep 3 2009, 06:40 PM

Many thanks Adrian!!

Right, I think a spot of research is in order . . .

Chris

cmf

Sep 4 2009, 06:44 PM

Ah well, and to think his DC will be winging its way towards me from the GRO very soon!!!

Hats off for the stunning service from the staff of Essex Record Office; made request last night, received the following this morning . . .

QUOTE

Thank your for your email.

A member of staff has checked the Essex County Standard, published in Colchester for early July 1915. The edition for Saturday 10 July 1915 includes a report of the death of Thomas Rigby and subsequent inquest under the headline Fatality at Gun Hill: Ex-Officer killed while cycling from London to Ipswich. The accident took place on 2 July and Thomas Rigby presumably died on the same day.

According to the report, Thomas Rigby was taken to the Military Hospital at Colchester as he was thought to be an Officer. He had joined the London Brigade RFA at the outbreak of the war, but had resigned owing to deafness. The article notes that he had been in the army earlier, but gives no further details of his previous career. There is no reference to where he was to be buried, or whether this had already happened.

Plus, my own digging reveals . . .

London Gazette, 4th May 1915 (p 4278)

Royal Field Artillery

1st London Brigade.

Lieutenant T. S. Rigby resigns his commission
on account of ill -health. Dated 5th May, 1915.

Still have to hear from Colchester Cemetery if he's buried there!!

Chris

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