Army Number : 17393

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Thomas Stanley and Fanny Piggin, of Linden House, Peel Street, Nottingham. He was educated at Elm Bank School and Wellingborough Grammar School. He was articled to Mellors, Barden and Mellors, Chartered Accountants prior to enlisting at Nottingham. Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 24, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Frederick Piggin is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.