Name
Frank Wallace Higham
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/03/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
147150
Royal Field Artillery
'B' Battery, 51st Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
Plot II, Row M, Grave 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Son of William Wallace and Mary Naomi (nee CARPENTER) HIGHAM of Watford.
His parents married 8 May 1897 at St Peter’s, Morley, Yorks. Naomi died 1932 in Watford aged 59, and was buried 23 April in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; William died 1961 in the King’s Lynn, Norfolk, district aged 84.
Frank was born about 1898 in Churwell, Leeds, Yorks.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Basingstoke, Hants, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, aged 13 he lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Frank in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 28 April 1917. Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
