BRIGGS W. H.

William Henry Briggs 

Corporal 48327

108th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery

William Henry Briggs died on Saturday 2 June 1917, Age 22, and was buried at NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.

He was born c1895 at South Hykeham, Lincs*, to parents Charles H. & Betsy Briggs. Charles H. Briggs was a Cattle Man (on a farm), who moved to Sutton-in-Ashfield from Lincolnshire shortly after William Henry's birth. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living on Kirkby Lane, Sutton. 

William Henry Briggs was also the husband of Ida Briggs, of Morley Street, Stanton Hill, Notts. 

Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 31st May 1918

Briggs - In Loving Memory of Corporal William H. Briggs, who died of wounds, June 2nd 1917, in France, aged 23 years. Could we have raised his dying head, And heard his last farewell; The blow would not have been so hard, To those who loved him well. - From his loving Wife and little Willie, Brother George in France, and all.

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Royal Garrison Artillery’

BRIGGS William Henry. Born South Hykehan, Lincs, enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). Royal Garrison Artillery, Corpl., 48327, Died of wounds, France & Flanders, 2nd June 1917.

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Research by Heather Faulkes
* CWGC state he was a "native of Sutton-in-Ashfield"