| Regimental number | 730 |
| Place of birth | Telangatuk East, Victoria |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Telangatuk East, Victoria |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 23 |
| Height | 5' 9" |
| Weight | 144 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, Thomas Rigby, Telangatuk East, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Member of the Balmoral Rifle Club. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Balmoral, Victoria |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 21st Battalion, C Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/38/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | Commissioned |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 21st Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 26 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 94 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Thomas and Martha RIGBY, 'Hybla', Pallamallawa, New South Wales. Native of Telangatuk East, Victoria |
| Family/military connections | Brother: [1548] Lt John Samuel Thomson RIGBY MM, 6th Trench Mortar Battery, killed in action, 4 October 1917. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Proceeded to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 29 August 1915. Disembarked Alexandria ex Mudros, 7 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 26 March 1916. Admitted to 7th Field Ambulance, 8 July 1916 (injury to elbow); transferred to 2nd Canadian Stationary Hospital, Outreau, 9 July 1916; transferred to England, 11 July 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 12 November 1916; joined 21st Bn, 22 November 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 December 1916. Joined No. 5 Officers' Cadet Bn, Trinity College, Cambridge, 3 January 1917. Promoted 2nd Lt, 1 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 14 May 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, RIGBY Frank |
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