Albert Arthur HIGGS

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Service Numbers:	2385, 2634
Enlisted:	15 August 1915, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1896
Home Town:	Edgecliff, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bootmaker
Died:	Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 1959, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

14 Jul 1915:	Involvement Private, 2385, 4th Infantry Battalion, Failed to Embark
15 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2634, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
26 Aug 1915:	Involvement Private, 2634, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
26 Aug 1915:	Embarked Private, 2634, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne
1 Jul 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6th Infantry Battalion, In France.
9 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2634, 6th Infantry Battalion, Shell wounds to the arm and leg. Invalided to England on 18 August 1918
23 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2634, 6th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to wounding

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Son of Albert Arthur Higgs and Margaret E. Higgs o Ina Terrace, Edgecliff, NSW

Origianlly enlisted on 12 May 1915 but failed to embark and was court martialled

Commenced return to Australia on 20 November 1918 aboard HT Suevic disembarking on 6 January 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Recommended for the Military Medal but wasn't awarded for maintaining signals on the 4-5 October 1917

During 1921c Albert married Marie Annie Leavers in Sydney, NSW