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The Roll of Honour in the Oadby and Wigston Council Chamber (1)
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The Oadby and Wigston Roll of Honour is located in the Council Chamber at Bushloe House, Station Road, Wigston Magna; formerly a private residence it has for the past 40 years or more been the offices of the Oadby and Wigston Borough Council.
The Oadby and Wigston Borough Council came into existence in 1974 when the two adjoining local councils were amalgamated. Wigston Urban District Council (formed in 1894) was the occupant of Bushloe House at the time and had been since the early 1950s. The War Memorial therefore commemorates those men from the Wigston Parish who fell in both world wars, and does not include men from Oadby. Strictly speaking, the memorial should be simply known as the Wigston Roll of Honour.
The names of 224 men who lost their lives in the First World War are commemorated
on this Roll of Honour, together with 87 names for the Second World War.
1 soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment is named on this Roll of Honour (together
with 1 Green Howard from the 2nd World War, - Private A G Jones).
Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) has kindly provided photographs of the Oadby and Wigston Roll of Honour.
Lance Corporal John Samuel Rudkin. 31759. 3rd (Labour) Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Resided 80 Cherry Street, Wigston Magna, Leics. Husband
of Laura. Bricklayer. Died 27 October 1918. Aged 35.
Buried WIGSTON CEMETERY.
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 was transferred 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.
John Samuel Rudkin is buried in an unmarked grave in Wigston Cemetery, alongside
his wife Laura.
The
Roll of Honour in the Oadby and Wigston Council Chamber (2)
Photo : Richard Roberts <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>
Lance
Corporal Rudkin's name on the Roll of Honour in the Oadby and Wigston Council
Chamber
Photo : Richard Roberts <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>
The
Council Offices at Bushloe House, Station Road, Wigston Magna
Photo : Richard Roberts <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>
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