THOMAS+TWIGGE

Twigge, Thomas, Private, 70719, 1st Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Born Ashbourne, Derbyshire Enlisted Ashbourne Killed in action France & Flanders 4th March 1917 aged 20 Son of the late William and Catherine Twigge, of West View, Parwich, Ashbourne, Derbyshire Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 10C, 10D and 11A

Ashbourne News, 1st June 1917 Thomas Twigge was the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Twigge. He was aged 17 when he enlisted, following two of his brothers into the army, and spent some time training at Buxton, Luton, Dunstable, Epping and Watford, before being sent to Ireland, where he ‘took an active part against the rebels’. He volunteered three times to be sent to the front, and finally was posted to France in August 1916, joining his unit on the Somme. A letter was sent to Mrs. Twigge, dated 17th March 1917, from Captain Lightfoot. He related that Thomas had been killed by shell-fire ‘during a successful attack on the enemy’s trenches’, and that his death was ‘practically instantaneous’. He went on to say that Thomas ‘acquitted himself well in an action which dealt the enemy a severe blow.’


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