Lance Corporal James Biggins

Army Number: 18223

Battalion: 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Brownhills, Staffordshire and lived at Holliwell, Staffordshire. Son of James and Elizabeth Biggins. Husband of Eva Biggins. He enlisted at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and went to France 29th August 1915. He was drowned, 17th November 1915,  when the Hospital Ship Anglia struck a German mine about a mile east of Folkestone, Kent. 

Commemorated : Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Lance Corporal James Biggins is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Manfield District Council Offices Roll of honour, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.