cmf Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rflory Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted 2 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 2 September , 2009 Thanks Gunner 1 Hmmm, Calcutta/ Colchester BVA/ RFA ????? Either way, he doesn't seem to be on CWGC . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Porter Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 The only Rigby death registered in Colchester at that time is this one. Deaths Sep 1915 ------------------------------------------------ Rigby Thomas S 52 Colchester 4a 676 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisharley9 Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 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 Probably not embodied at the time of his death so therefore no CWGC commemoration Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apwright Posted 3 September , 2009 Share Posted 3 September , 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted 3 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2009 Many thanks Adrian!! Right, I think a spot of research is in order . . . Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted 4 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 4 September , 2009 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 . . . 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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