HIGGINS, Walter Norman
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | 27 April 1880, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Maylands (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | King's School Bruton England; Emmanuel College Cambridge |
| Occupation: | Church of England Clerk in Holy Orders |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jul 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 Jul 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide |
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Discharged 30 April 1918 in England
Resided Portsmouth England in 1924
The Rev. W. N. Higgins was educated at the King's School, Bruton (England), whence he passed to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1893. He graduated with third class honors in the Classical Tripos in 1901, and for three years after leaving Cambridge worked as a schoolmaster. In 1904 he joined the Wales Theological College, and was ordained deacon in Southwark Cathedral by the present Bishop of Winchester in June, 1905. He served curacies at St. Andrew's, Battersea, and St.Paul's, Herne Hill, till November, 1908, when he came out to Adelaide as domestic chaplain to the present- bishop. For a time he combined his work as chaplain with the charge of the Mission Church at Maylands, but as the district grew it was transformed into a full parish, of which he was instituted as the first rector on his return from a visit to England in 1914.
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