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RAMC profile of:

William RIGBY
[Service No: 103073]

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Place or Date of Birth:	Bury, Lancs

Service Number:	103073

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Rank:	Pte

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Enlistment Location:	Bury, Lancs

Also Served:

Outcome:	Died at Sea

Date Died:	04/05/1917
Age Died:	29

Where Buried and/or Commemorated:	Italy - Savona Memorial

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William was on board the Hired Transport "Transylvania", when it was proceeding to Egypt with reinforcements, and was sunk by a torpedo by the German U-boat U-63 off Cape Vado, a few kilometres south of Savona. He was the son of William and Mary Rigby of 19 Roach Street, Blackford Bridge, Bury, Lancs.

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