Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William Viggars), in card envelope, extremely fine £40-60

William Viggars was born in Islington, London and living in Kentish Town, enlisted at Islington. Serving as Quartermaster Serjeant 7263 in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to the King’s African Rifles, Viggars died of heart failure at Kaduna, Nigeria, on 18 February 1918. He was buried in Kaduna Military Cemetery. Sold with framed commemorative scroll; original marriage certificate between William Viggars, a grocer’s porter and Emily Elland, a housemaid, dated 1910; Army Form B.104-82B notifying Mrs Viggars of her husband’s death; Inventory of articles held and a postcard photograph of members of the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire (Leeds Pals) Regiment.