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Corporal WILLIAM HIGGS

Service Number: 21073
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

E. 53.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Ellen Lucy Dean (formerly Higgs), of 2, Newman Cottages, Upper Bourne End, Bucks.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 318
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