Broadstairs War Memorial WWI Casualty list:
Petty Officer Stoker John Charles Wiggington
Son of: Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wigginton of Church Street, St Peter’s
Branch of Service: Royal Navy – for 14 years
Service Number: 304978
Unit: H. M. S. Laforey
Class: Laforey Class Destroyer
Date launched: 23rd March, 1917
Voyage: Mined in the English Channel
Date Lost: 23rd March, 1917
Date of death: 23rd March, 1917
Casualties: No survivors
Memorial location: Chatham Naval Memorial
Reference: Panel, 23
Research courtesy of John T Williams