Name
Ernest Higgs
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Ernest Higgs was born on 18th July 1880 at Willesden. His parents, Charles and Ann had four children, three sons and a daughter. Charles was employed as a Railway Driver, and at the time of the 1891 and 1901 Census the family lived at 51 Railway Cottages at Acton.
Ernest married Alice Tibbles on 6th October 1901, and by the time of the 1911 Census the couple had five children – three boys and two girls. The two daughters died within months of being born, as did a third son who was born in 1915.
In 1911 the Census recorded that the family lived at 74 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley, and that Ernest worked as a Garden Labourer at the St Pancras School.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour first recorded Ernest in May 1915, serving with the Army Service Corps (ASC). In the May Roll of Honour he was listed as Charles Higgs, but this was corrected the following month.
In the December 1916 Parish Magazine it was reported that Ernest had been wounded, however he recovered and continued to serve with the ASC until January 1918 when the Magazine recorded that he had been wounded again, and in March 1918 continued to note that Ernest had been Discharged Disabled.
Ernest Higgs survived the War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown. Discharged Disabled.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
