Private Harris Vigdosky was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, at St George's, the eldest son of Russian parents Solomon, a tailoring machinist, and Rachael Vigdosky. At the time of the 1911 census, Vigdosky was apprenticing while living with his family at 42 Jane Street, Commercial Road.
Aged 23, Vigdosky died on 31 July 1917, the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres, while serving on the Western Front with the 11th (Service) Battalion (2nd Gwent), The South Wales Borderers.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Vigdosky, Harris, cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 November 2012.