This blue plaque is attached the wall of 175 Capstone Road Bournemouth.

RIGGS, Frederick Charles, VC MM - Sergeant 20695, 6th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Killed in action near Epinoy 1st October 1918. Age 29. Born Springbourne, Bournemouth 28th July 1888, enlisted Bournemouth 1914. Adopted son of Elizabeth Burgum, of 39, Capstone Rd., Bournemouth. He was adopted by Mrs Burgum when he was about five years old. He went to Malmesbury Park School. After leaving school, he went to work for Pickfords, the furniture removals company. In September 1914 he joined the 15th Hussars and was promoted in France, during 1915, to the rank of Sergeant in the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Sergeant Riggs was posted to Gallipoli and then to Egypt, before being returned to France. He was badly wounded during the Battle of the Somme and was sent home to England, winning the Military Medal. Later he returned to France. He was also awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for Conspicuous bravery and resisting with his men to the last. Formerly 26526, The Hussars. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.

At Epinoy, on the 1st October 1918, he found himself leading his men after the death of his platoon officer. He took them through uncut barbed wire while under heavy fire and, despite losing many of his men, continued his advance. He captured a machine gun post and using two captured machine guns caused the surrender of fifty enemy soldiers.

Later, with the enemy attacking in force, he was shot and killed. He was 30 years old. For his "most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice", he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. His medals now lies in the York and Lancaster Regimental Museum in Pontefract. He is also commemorated by the Riggs Gardens in Wallisdown and by a bronze plaque in the school hall at Malmesbury Park School.

NOBLE, Cecil Reginald, VC - [Listed as Lance Corporal] Corporal, 3697, "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). Fatally wounded at Neuve Chappele 12th March 1915. Age 23. Born 1891, 175 Capstone Road, Bournemouth. Enlisted Bournemouth 1910. Resident Bournemouth. Son of Hannah Noble, of "Ferndean," 172, Capstone Rd., Bournemouth, and the late Frederick Leopold Noble. Posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery in clearing barbed wire under severe fire allowing his battalion to advance. Buried in LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Grave I. A. 57.

An extract from the Supplement to the London Gazette of 27th April, 1915 (No. 29146) records the award of the V.C. to this N.C.O. and to C.S.M. H. Daniels "For most conspicuous bravery on 12th March, 1915, at Neuve Chapelle, when their battalion was impeded in the advance to attack by wire entanglements, and subjected to a very severe machine-gun fire, these two men voluntarily rushed in front and succeeded in cutting the wires."