BORN LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, 1897. SON OF WILLIAM HIGGINSON (1872-1939) & SARAH JANE PRESTON (1871-1957), OF 55 MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, HULL AND LEICESTER. SON OF A PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE EXECUTIVE. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. A MEDICAL STUDENT AT ST. BARTS HOSPITAL, LONDON.
WILLIAM SERVED AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. FLEW SOPWITH CAMELS. WENT MISSING ON A BOMBING RAID, ON 20/11/1917, AT VAUCHELLES WOOD, CAMBRAI, AGED 21.
LEFT £251 TO HIS FATHER WILLIAM, A PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT, WHO MOVED TO 7 WINCHESTER AVENUE, LEICESTER.
HIS BROTHER, 2ND LIEUTENANT, JOHN THOMAS GORDON HIGGINSON, RFC, WAS KILLED IN A FLYING ACCIDENT, AT SPITTLEGATE, GRANTHAM, ON 01/11/1917, AGED 19.
BOTH SONS ARE COMMEMORATED ON THE FAMILY GRAVESTONE, AT CREWE CEMETERY, CHESHIRE. THEY LEFT YOUNGER SISTER CONSTANCE AND YOUNGER BROTHER HENRY
