PIGGOTT, Horace Lindsay
| Service Number: | 4750 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bowral, New South Wales, Australia, 31 May 1891 |
| Home Town: | Kyogle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Penrith Superior School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 14 November 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Eden Creek District WW1 Honour Roll, Kyogle Great War Honor Roll, Kyogle Methodist WW1 Roll of Honor, Kyogle Shire Council Honour Roll WW1, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4750, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 12 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4750, 25th Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Desmond CLARKE
The following is from "1916 Our Fallen" compiled in 2016 by Research Services staff of Penrith City Library:
Horace Piggott was born at Bowral in 1891, the son of William and Eliza Piggott. The Piggott family lived on the York Estate when Horace was growing up. He attended Penrith Superior Public School and was a schoolmate of William Starling.
Before enlisting, Piggott worked as a dairyman. Piggott enlisted on 8 October 1915 in Brisbane. At this time his parents were living at Eden Creek, Kyogle in northern NSW. His Unit embarked from Sydney on board RMS Mooltan on 2 April 1916.
After a bout of tonsillitis in August 1916 he was sent to France in September. On 14 November Piggott was reported missing. According to a fellow soldier
he was killed in the attack on Gird Trench near Flers. Any man not accounted for was assumed killed and lying in ‘no man’s land’. By January 1917, he was officially reported killed in action. Piggott has no known grave.
In May 1917, the Nepean Times reported on his death stating ‘Australia mourns the loss of another valiant soldier of her nationhood, whose name and heroism will be ever inscribed on the tablets of her martial fame’.
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