VIGAR, Oscar Vincent
| Service Numbers: | 2821, 2821B |
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| Enlisted: | 2 August 1915, Keswick, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morgan, south australia, 20 April 1894 |
| Home Town: | Cleve, Cleve, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Morgan English State School, Muirden College of South Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | During A Raid On Celtic Wood, Celtic Wood, Belgium, 9 November 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Muirden College of South Australia Great War Roll of Honor, Adelaide National War Memorial, Arno Bay WW1 Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cleve WW1 Honor Roll, Cleve War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Parkside Epworth Uniting Church Honour Roll, Unley Arch of Remembrance, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2821, 27th Infantry Battalion, Keswick, South Australia | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 2821, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 2821, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide | |
| 28 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2821B, 10th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2821B awm_unit: 10 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-09 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 2821, 10th Infantry Battalion |
Family Notices
The Advertiser Friday 16 November 1917 page 8
Corporal OSCAR VIGAR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vigar, of Boothby, has been missing since October 8, 1917. Corporal Vigar sailed on, October 27, 1915, with a reinforcement of the 27th Battalion, and after reaching Egypt was transferred to the 10th Battalion. A younger brother, Private Norman Vigar, also of the 10th Battalion, made the supreme sacrifice on September 21,1917.
The Advertiser Friday 28 December 1917 page 5
Corporal OSCAR VIGAR, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Vigar, of Boothby, who was reported missing, was killed on October 8. He had been on active service for two years with the 10thBattalion. Prior to enlistment he was employed as a clerk by Messrs. Bickford & Sons. A younger brother, Gunner H. J. Vigar, also of the 10th, made the supreme sacrifice on September 25.
Submitted 27 January 2016 by Daryl Jones
Biography contributed by Robert Kearney
Raid on Celtic Wood
2821b Private Oscar Vincent Vigar a clerk from Boothby, South Australia was in the field the field with D Company on the day of the raid. The Field Return 13 October recorded him as missing on 8 October but then ‘Missing now Killed in Action 9/10/17’ in the corrigenda of the Field Return for 3 November 1917.
Credible witness statements in his Red Cross file. Private Seebohm. - ‘On the 9th October we were holding the line at Celtic Wood, Ypres sector. Vigar went out on a raid in the morning. On his way back I saw him drop, not far from where we were, - that night two fellows went out to fetch him in – I saw him brought in. He was dead. He had been hit in the head by a bullet. We were relieved that night; his body was left there…’
Corporal Easther. - ‘This man was killed on the morning of the 8th October in front of Celtic Wood I buried him the same night just behind our lines in the Field and erected a cross from a bomb-box, and put his name on it in indelible pencil. Personal property and identity discs were given to O/C D Coy. There is no doubt about his identity as I took his identity disc myself and saw his name.
Private Pearce. - ‘...at daybreak I saw Vigar go out with others on a raid. …when they were coming back, I saw him struggling along badly wounded. He got to within 10 yards of our trench, and could get no farther. Corpl. Easther of the 10th Batt., went out to fetch him in; he got him into his arms, but Vigar was hit, and killed…the Corpl., brought in his paybook’.
Biography
Son of William VIGAR and Elizabeth Daisy nee PLUSH
Biography contributed by Cleve Area School
Fate: He was reported missing on the 13th of October 1917, but it was discovered on the 3rd of November 1917 that he had been killed in action in the field Belgium
Oscar Vincent Vigar was born on the 20th of April 1894 in Morgan, South Australia to mother Elizabeth Daisy nee Plush and Father William Vigar. He had a brother Norman Joseph Vigar, who also enlisted in the war and was killed in action. Oscar attended school in Morgan before becoming a clerk at Boothby, South Australia.
Oscar enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces on the 2nd of August 1915 in Keswick. Before his enlistment in the Great War he served 1 year in the 74th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
On the 27th March 1916 Oscar proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force. He continued on his journey and on the 3rd of April 1916 and he disembarked at Marseilles.
21st April 1916 he detached to the anzac kit depot. 18th July 1916 Oscar was admitted to the Australian general hospital of Rouen (diarrhoea causes), he rejoined the 10th battalion on 25th of August.
11th November 1916 he was admitted to the 2nd Australian Field Ambulance for trench feet and then was sent to hospital in England to recover. He was transferred to a communications depot in England until he returned to the front in France 29th July 1917.
He was reported missing in action in Belgium 8th October 1917. Subsequently confirmed as killed in action, reported date of death was the 9th of november.
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