Name
William Higginson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
K.P/378
Royal Navy
Hood Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK & Other Memorials
Memorial Hall Plaque, Chorleywood
Pre War
Born on 1 Nov 1888 son of Walter Higginson and living at 7 Solesbridge Lane, Chorleywood. He was a barman and also lived at the Chorleywood Hotel. (Next of kin was a friend Emma Elbourn).
Wartime Service
Enlisted with the Yorkshire Light Infantry on 7 Sep 1914. On nominal roll of Royal Navy Hood Bn. 25 Jan 1915. Admitted to hospital in Malta with enteric fever on 30 Jul 1915 and invalided back to England. On 17 Feb 1916 wounded with a gunshot wound to the leg at Gallipoli and admitted to hospital in Malta. Served with the Machine Gun Company in France from 1 Sep 1916 and was again injured on 29 Sep 1918. Demobilised on 15 Feb 1919.
Additional Information
Possibly the William J Higginson whose death was registered in Watford in Jun 1929.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
