Sergeant WILLIAM BRIGGS
Service Number: 751402
                
                        
                        Regiment & Unit/Ship
                    
                        Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
53 Sqdn.
                        
                        Date of Death
                    
                        Died 24 August 1940
Age 21 years old
                        
                        Buried or commemorated at
                    
                    WESTWOOD (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD
South part. Grave 166.
United Kingdom
Photographer: John Stretton
- Country of Service United Kingdom
 - Additional Info Son of William J. Briggs and Elizabeth Briggs, of Coventry.
 - Personal Inscription LIFE TO HIM WAS VERY SWEET YET HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE
 

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