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Sergeant WILLIAM BURLEY HIGGINS

Service Number: 741927
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

253 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 14 September 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITWELL (ST. LAWRENCE) CHURCHYARD

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Maunce Higgins and Gertrude May Higgins, of Hodthorpe. School Teacher.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITWELL (ST. LAWRENCE) CHURCHYARD
Derbyshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 8
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