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🌺 “Loved in Life, Honoured in Death” — The Story of Lance Corporal Robert Biggins, DCM 🌺 Robert Biggins was born in 1888 in Knowsley, Lancashire — raised in a working-class world of docks, labour, hard hands and long days. As a young man he worked for the Ellerman Hall Line before finding steadier employment as a dock clerk at Birkenhead Docks. He lived the same life as thousands of working men of his time — ordinary, humble, hardworking. At eighteen, he enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters. A