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Gunner JOHN HIGGINS

Service Number: 936972
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

53 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 15 November 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

D. 147A.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Higgins, of Thorne, Yorkshire; husband of Joan Rosaline Higgins, of Thorne.
  • Personal Inscription REMEMBRANCE IS A GOLDEN CHAIN, THAT LINKS US TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2004
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