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Private JOSEPH HIGGINSON

Service Number: 6451
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

71st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEIGH CEMETERY

37. E. CE. 20.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Martha Higginson, of 20, Selwyn St., Leigh.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

LEIGH CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 105
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