Private Charles William Briggs
Army Number: 266874
Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Goole, Yorkshire and lived in Nottingham. Son of Charles Seaton Briggs and Mary Ann Briggs, of 306, Hucknall Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 26th September 1917, age 21, in the attack near Wieltje, near Ypres, Belgium.
Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.
Private Charles William Briggs is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
