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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Wigston Cemetery, Leicestershire |
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Wigston Cemetery (Leicestershire) includes 33 burials from both
World Wars who have Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones , - 11 from
the First World War and 22 from the Second World War.
However, there is one burial of a soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment
where the soldier has no headstone (neither a family headstone nor a CWGC
headstone.
This soldier was discharged due to ill health and died a year and a half after
discharge. His ill health was attributed as having been aggravated by War
Service, with the soldier himself stating that his ill health was a result
of earlier Army service.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard@nosnailshere.co.uk>) who has carried out research into this soldier's military career, and has forwarded a photograph of the plot in Wigston Cemetery where both the soldier and his wife are buried.
Wigston (Leics) Cemetery, - the plot in which L/Cpl Rudkin and his Wife, Laura,
are Buried
(the two burials are in the plot located between the two headstones on the
left, and the headstone on the right).
Photo by Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Lance Corporal John Samuel Rudkin. 31759. 3rd (Labour) Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Resided 80 Cherry Street, Wigston Magana, Leics. Husband
of Laura. Bricklayer. Died 27 October 1918. Aged 35.
L/Cpl Rudkin had earlier served in the Coldstream Guards, but enlisted in
the Leicestershire Regiment on 11 December 1915.
He was transferred to the 16th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment on 10 June 1916,
promoted to Lance Corporal. He served in France with this battalion between
11 July and 18 October 1916. He wastransferred to the 3rd (Labour) Battalion
of the Yorkshire Regiment on 13 January 1917, and was discharged as being
medically unfit (heart trouble) on 31 March 1917).
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