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Tom Higgs

Guardsman Tom Higgs (8883), 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards

Guardsman Tom Higgs (2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards) died from wounds he received at Festubert on Christmas Day 1914, he was 21. He is buried at the Bethune Town Cemetery in France.

Tom (Charles P) Higgs was born in Eaton Hastings in 1893, the son of Isaac and Annie Higgs, he was baptised at Great Coxwell.
Isaac and Annie had 6 other children; George Henry (1894), Annie (1896), James Isaac (1898), Dorothy (1899), Frank (1906) and Lilian Mary (1910).

By 1911 at the age of 18 he was stationed in Caterham, he served with the expeditionary force.

Tom appeared in the Roll of Honour in the Faringdon Advertiser of January 9th 1915 and is commemorated on the Great Coxwell memorial and in St. Giles Church.

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