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Private GEORGE FREDERICK HIGGINS

Service Number: 4448357
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

VII. B. 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Frederick and Mary Ann Higgins, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Jean A. Higgins, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription MY DEAR HUSBAND GEORGE. ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY HIS WIFE JEAN AND SON TONY, MOTHER AND MOTHER-IN-LAW
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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