a list of the HIGGINS on my tree as at 24th September 2010


Cecil William Higgins (1895 - 1917)
* KILLED in ACTION in Belgium
buried Wulverghem-Lindenhoek
Cecil went to war at the age of 21
SERIAL NUMBER - 6/3744
FIRST KNOWN RANK - Private
OCCUPATION - Farmer
NEXT OF KIN - S. Higgins, Spring Grove, Nelson
BODY ON EMBARKATION - New Zealand Expeditionary Force
EMBARKATION UNIT - 9th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
EMBARKATION DATE - 8 January 1916
PLACE OF EMBARKATION - Wellington, New Zealand
TRANSPORT - HMNZT 37
VESSEL - Maunganui
DESTINATION - Suez, Egypt
LAST UNIT SERVED - Canterbury Infantry Regiment
PLACE OF DEATH - Belgium
CAUSE OF DEATH - Killed in action

David Emery Higgins (1890 - 1975)
born in Nelson
married Eunice Gertrude EDWARDS

4. Higgins, David Emery (1890 - 1975)

5. Higgins, Hannah (1850 - 1887)
- married William Edmund RUSS 1884

6. Higgins, Hughey Ernest (b.1897)

7. Higgins, Ida Elsie (1892 - 1948)

8. Higgins, Joan Gertrude (1919 - 2008)
- born in Havelock, Marlborough
- married Victor Hughie MOORE
- Joan`s father and Victor`s mother were siblings

9. Higgins, John

10. Higgins, Leila Bertha (1899 - 1959)
- married Arthur William NEWTH 1926

11. Higgins, Sarah Grace (1888 - 1968)
- married Harry Lyon MOORE 1908

12. Higgins, Sidney Emery (1861 - 1928)
- ,arried Emma Bertha RUSS 1887

15. Higgins, Sydney George (1903 - 1970)
- married Rose Isabel WELLS 1927