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Sapper JOHN HIGGINS

Service Number: 47753
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

82nd Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1916

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT

I. P. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Daniel Higgins; husband of Charlotte Higgins, of 8, Meldon St., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Buried or commemorated at

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 713
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