Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Blake Higginson
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Document
Family of F/Sgt Higginson -
Document
RCAF notification of death. The International Red Cross had informed them that his body was interred in the POW section of a municipal cemetery near Dusseldorf. -
Document
German record -
Letter
Letter to mother from Group Captain on 20 September 1942 -
Attestation paper
Results of interview upon enlistment in RCAF. Higginson had enlisted in the Army in 1941 and trained with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals at Barriefield, Ont. -
Grave marker
Wooden cross on Sgt. Higginson's grave at Rheinberg War Cemetery. -
Grave marker
Photo of permanent grave marker at Rheinberg War Cemetery, courtesy of Fred from the Netherlands on Find a Grave. -
Newspaper clipping
Photograph of F/Sgt. Higginson and his three brothers who served during WWII. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Blake Higginson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Blake Higginson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 81 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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