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Private FRANCIS HIGGINS

Service Number: 19879
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 July 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

II. S. 3.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Roland and Johannah Higgins, of Lilac Cottage, Stoke Heath, Market Drayton.
  • Personal Inscription LEAD THOU ME ON BEYOND THE VEIL
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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