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Private GLADYS RIGGS

Service Number: W/126168
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Auxiliary Territorial Service

Date of Death

Died 01 March 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVING (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

United Kingdom

Headstone concrete support revealed.

Photographer: Kevin Pickering

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Daughter of William George and Kate Riggs, of North Birsted.
  • Personal Inscription "TIS SAD BUT TRUE I WONDER WHY THE BEST ARE ALWAYS FIRST TO DIE." MUM, DAD, SISTERS
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