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Flight Sergeant HARRY HIGGINSON

Service Number: 564652
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

40 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1941

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEICESTER (GILROES) CEMETERY

Sec. U.U. Grave 881.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Ada Higginson; husband of Irene Higginson, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription LOVED IN LIFE NOW HELD IN DEAREST MEMORY. A DEAR DEVOTED HUSBAND AND FATHER
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Buried or commemorated at

LEICESTER (GILROES) CEMETERY
Leicestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 275
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