Pigott | Alfred | 25305 | Trooper | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 66th Company, 3rd Btn, IY |
Pigott | B W | | | 6th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Manchester Regiment |
Pigott | C | 4485 | Private | QSA (4).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 20th Hussars |
Pigott | C B | | 2nd Lieutenant | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879 | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
Pigott | Charles Berkeley | | Major | PIGOTT, CHARLES BERKELEY, Captain, was born 13 January 1859, son of Sir Charles Robert Pigott, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Louisa (who died in 1873), daughter of Captain C Hallowell Carew, RN, of Beddington Park, Surrey. He joined the 60th King's Royal Rifles; served in the Zulu War, 1879 (Medal with clasp); in the Boer War, 1881, with Mounted Infantry; in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, in which he was dangerously wounded. He received the Medal, Bronze Star, the 5th Class Medjidie, and was promoted Captain, and given a troop in the 21st Lancers. He served in the Eastern Sudan Campaign in 1884 (two clasps); with the Nile Expedition, 1884-5 (two clasps). He was given the Brevet of Major in 1886, and in the same year married Fanny Ada, daughter of the Reverend Wellesley Pole Pigott, and Fanny, daughter of Bernard Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall, Warwickshire, and they had two children: Berkeley and Florence Ada Cecile. He served on the West Coast of Africa, 1887-8; and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 9 March 1888]: "Charles Berkeley Pigott, Major, 21st Lancers". For services in Burma. He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in 1896, and created a CB. Lieutenant Colonel Pigott took part in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96, and was made Commandant of Kumasi. All his promotions were Brevet, for services, and he was mentioned many times in Despatches. Lieutenant Colonel C B Pigott died 12 September 1897.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book) | 21st Lancers |
Pigott | E | 2684 | Private | Died of disease. Kroonstad, 18 January 1901
9th Battalion.
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
Pigott | F W | 33165 | Gunner | Unattached
Demise: Died of disease 24 Nov 1900
Place: Bloemfontein
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Royal Horse Artillery |
Pigott | G | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (King's Own) Yorkshire Light Infantry |
Pigott | G A Royston | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Northamptonshire Regiment |
Pigott | G T | | | 3rd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Lincolnshire Regiment |
Pigott | George Henry | 25191 | Corporal | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 74th Company, 8th Btn, IY |
Pigott | Grenville Edmund | | Lieutenant | PIGOTT, GRENVILLE EDMUND, Lieutenant, was born 18 February 1870; educated at Harrow (Church Hill), and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was gazetted to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers 18 June 1892, becoming Lieutenant, Army Service Corps, 30 March 1895. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1898, as Staff Officer, British Brigade, Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum; was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 24 May and 30 September 1898]; received the Medal, and the Egyptian Medal with two clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 15 November 1898]: "Grenville Edmund Pigott, Lieutenant, Army Service Corps. In recognition of services during the recent operations in Egypt and in the Sudan, including the Battles of Atbara and Khartoum". (The Insignia presented by the Queen at Windsor 1 December 1898). He became Captain 20 July 1899; served in the South African War, 1899 to 1902, on the Staff, taking part in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (17 to 26 February); operations at Poplar Grove and Dreifontein; operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 November 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1 to 29 July); operations in Orange River Colony 30 November 1900, to April 1902. He received the Queen's Medal with five clasps, and the King's Medal with two clasps. He was promoted to Major 2 October 1906. Major Pigott was Adjutant, ASC, 25 October 1908 to 31 March 1909. He served in the Somaliland Expedition, 21 January 1909 to 21 January 1910, as Director of Supplies and Transport (Despatches; thanks of Colonial Office; Medal and clasp). He was DAD of Supplies and Transport, Aldershot Command, 24 February 1912 to 11 November 1912. He served in the European War from 1914; became Lieutenant Colonel, 30 October 1914; was AA and QMG, British Armies in France, 27 June 1915 to 12 December 1916; was mentioned in Despatches, and created a CMG in 1916. Lieutenant Colonel Pigott married, in 1902, Alice Molesworth (who died in 1919), only daughter of Lieutenant Colonel A J Ogilvie.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book) | Army Service Corps |
Pigott | H H | | | District 1
Source: QSA and KSA rolls | Cape Police |
Pigott | H P | | Lieutenant | Demise: Died of disease - enteric fever 12 Nov 1900
Place: Standerton
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry |
Pigott | Hubert | 2316 | | Attested: Jan 1902. Source: CMP 44 | Cape Police |
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