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Lance Corporal JAMES HIGGINS

Service Number: 8366
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1915

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY

V. A. 25.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Bridget and the late James Higgins; husband of Florence Higgins, of Queen's Head Yard, Gateshead, Co. Durham. Born at Newcastle.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT THEY MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 7485
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