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Wiggins, Victor Thomas

Born Woodsdale Tasmania the son of Thomas Albert and Elizabeth Wiggins, a farmer he embarked Hobart 1^st July 1916 on board “HMAT Berrima” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 30^th November 1916 in France and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

If aught were needed to impress upon the people of the Commonwealth the urgent need of reinforcements for the front, surely the case of Private Victor T. Wiggins should furnish it. Private Wiggins entered Claremont Camp on April 15, 1916, was presented with a wristlet watch and two pairs of knitted woollen socks at a farewell social at Woodsdale on May 19; left Tasmania on July 2 with reinforcements, was chosen soon after his arrival in England to reinforce the 26th Battalion, along with some 300 others, and on November 20 (a few days before the referendum) was killed in action in France (vide Thursday's "Mercury").

The Mercury 25^th December 1916

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