Michael AKRIGG

Main CPGW Record

Surname: AKRIGG

Forename(s): Michael

Place of Birth: Hawes, Yorkshire

Service No: 268427

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)

Battalion / Unit: 1/7th Battalion. (Leeds Rifles)

Division: 49th (West Riding) Division

Age: 23

Date of Death: 1918-03-13

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: III. F. 14.

CWGC Cemetery: MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: GARSDALE HEAD, YORKSHIRE

Local War Memorial: HAWES, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Michael Akrigg was the son of Michael and Margaret Akrigg, née Kirk. Michael, senior, was born at Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland and Margaret at High Abbotside near Hawes, Yorkshire. Margaret's brother, Wilfred Kirk, was married to the mother of Private Samuel Kirk Lambert (30337) (q.v.). Margaret and Wilfred’s half-brother, John Brunskill, was the father of Private Wilfred Brunskill (532529) (q.v.).

1901 Lunds, Yorkshire Census: White Birk Farm - Michael Akrigg, aged 6 years, born Hawes, Yorkshire, son of Michael and Margaret Akrigg.

1911 Lunds, Yorkshire Census: White Birk - Michael Akrigg, aged 16 years, born Hawes, Yorkshire, son of Michael and Margaret Akrigg.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Michael Akrigg, 7420, 268427, W. York. R.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Michael Akrigg, 7420, 268427, 1/7 W. York. R. Died of Wounds 13.3.18.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Michael Akrigg, 268427, 1/7th Bn W. Yorks. Date and Place of Death: 13.3.18. Death pres'd. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Michael. £15 18s. 8d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) for Michael not found.

Photograph courtesy of Sedbergh & District History Society

Short biographies of Michael are included in:
‘Wensleydale Remembered – The Sacrifice made by the Families of a Northern Dale 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ by Keith Taylor (2004).
‘Sedbergh and District 1914-1918 – But who shall return the children?’ Compiled by Sedbergh and District History Society. Edited by Diane Elphick (2016).

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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