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NAME: Bignell, George Alfred

RANK: Lance Corporal

UNIT: Coldstream Guards

BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 7952

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 9th October 1917

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Artillery Wood Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

OTHER INFORMATION: Born about 1891. Son of Walter & Phoebe Bignell of 35 Milton Rd., Copnor, Portsmouth. In 1911 living at 9 Clovelly Road, Milton, Portsmouth. Born: Wick, Caithness. Enlisted: St Leonards-on-Sea. Reesided: Copnor, Portsmouth.