RIGGS IN THE ARMED FORCES
			INTRODUCTION AND  NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS    BRAVERY AND  DISTINGUISHED SERVICE  DEATHS,  CASUALTIES  & PRISONERS OF WAR    see  below    SOME OF THOSE  WHO ENLISTED

DEATHS, CASUALTIES & PRISONERS OF WAR:
INTRODUCTION

DETAILS INCLUDED  FOR THE FOLLOWING  CONFLICTS ?

BRITISH DEATHS

AUSTRALIAN DEATHS

CANADIAN DEATHS

SOUTH AFRICAN DEATHS

DETAILS INCLUDED  FOR THE FOLLOWING  CONFLICTS ?	AMERICAN DEATHS	AMERICAN CASUALTIES	AMERICAN PoWs
REVOLUTIONARY WAR no list found no list found no list found MEXICAN WAR none found in list no list found no list found CIVIL WAR no list found no list found limited number SPANISH-AMERICAN none found in list no list found no list found WORLD WAR ONE YES no list found no list found WORLD WAR TWO YES no list found YES KOREAN WAR YES YES none found in list VIET NAM WAR YES none found in list none found in list OTHER WARS limited number no list found no list found

I've extracted the details that relate to persons with the surname RIGGS for those records that I have found and been able to access, and these are documented in this section. They are so numerous that recipients are listed on separate pages for the British Isles, Australia, Canada, South Africa and America, and there are links to these pages from the above buttons. There were far fewer RIGGS in New Zealand or Newfoundland, and I've not identified any deaths of RIGGS in the armed forces in those countries. As always, if you are aware of any omissions, please let me know the details so that I can consider adding them at a later date.

As regards deaths and casualties in the armed forces and prisoners of war, the existence of records that can be searched, either online or in the respective National Archives, (and the amount of detail they contain) differs from country to country. Apart from the United States lists of individuals who were casualties or prisoners of war, referred to above, there is a list of World War 2 Prisoners of War in the British Army, but no RIGGS are included. The sources I've used are as follows:

BRITISH RECORDS
	Debt of Honour Register (United Kingdom) on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
	Roll of Honour website - "Lest we Forget".
	British Army Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 on the Ancestry.co.uk website.
AUSTRALIAN DEATHS
	Roll of Honour Database on the Australian War Memorial website.
	Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files on the Australian War Memorial website.
	AMF Prisoners of War and Missing in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands on the Australian War Memorial website.
	Debt of Honour Register (Australian) on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
CANADIAN DEATHS
	Soldiers of the South African War (1899-1902) section of the ArchiviaNet Online Research Tool on the "Library and Archives Canada" website.
	Canadian Virtual War Memorial on the "Veterans Affairs Canada" website.
	The Books of Remembrance on the "Veterans Affairs Canada" website.
	Debt of Honour Register (Canadian) on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
SOUTH AFRICAN DEATHS
	Debt of Honour Register (South African) on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
AMERICAN RECORDS
	Genealogy/Personal History section of Access to Archival Databases (AAD) on the National Archives website, listing numerous relevant online databases.
	The Burial Listings for each of the wars (other than the Revolutionary War and Viet Nam War) on the American Battle Monuments Commission website.
	World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas file on AncestryPlus taken from RG330 in the U.S.National Archives.