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Military service
Service number:
R/141503
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
September 11, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
2. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of John Bright Higginson and Frances Ann Higginson, of Westmount, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
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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