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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Wiggham Joseph William
|Army number=4442749
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry.  Attested 6/4/1923 as a Regular (for 7 years with the Colours and five on the Reserve) aged 18 at Durham.  Discharged at the termination of his engagement on 5/4/1939.  Re-enlisted 18/4/1939.  Probably posted to the 6th Battalion.  Posted to the 10th Battalion on its embodiment on 1/9/1939.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.?  Served Iceland?  Served Normandy.  Wounded.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes - in Normandy.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=Born Lanchester, father Joseph Wiggham.  Lived at 14, Lambton Street, Langley Park.
}}