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Guardsman WILFRED HIGGINS

Service Number: 2616230
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 July 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY

IV, C, 3.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Sarah Higgins, of Oldham, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK HIM, IT WAS HIS WILL. MEMORIES OF OUR DARLING SON WILL NEVER GROW OLD. MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHER, SISTER
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Buried or commemorated at

ASSISI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 949
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