Private GEORGE HIGGINS
Service Number: 40545
Regiment & Unit/Ship
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 17 April 1918
Age 19 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 456th Field Coy Royal Engineers
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Marie Victoire Higgins (nee Donnay), of 44, Rue de L'Amazone, Brussels, and the late John E. Higgins. Aged 16 when he left Brussels at the end of 1914. He passed the German lines and in 1915 volunteered in the British Army. Wounded four times and finally reported killed in the defence of Mount Kemmel.
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