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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Death:
September 28, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 3.
Additional information
Son of Anne L. Triggs, of 9, Foster Road, Alverstoke, Gosport, Hants, and the late Capt. Tom Bowden Triggs, R.N.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Guy Triggs
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008. <P> He was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1888, emigrated to Canada in 1906 and enlisted August 25, 1914 at Ottawa, Ontario. <P> A brother, Commander Tom K. Triggs, was onboard HMS Highflyer which was at anchor in Halifax Harbour December 6, 1917 when SS Mont Blanc, which was heavily loaded with ammunition, caught fire after a collision. Commander Triggs and five sailors were sent to assist and perished when the Mont Blanc exploded.<P> Their father, Capt. Tom B. Triggs, R.N. died in March 1921.
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Lieutenant Guy Triggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 514 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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