Jack Maxwell HIGGINS Update Details

HIGGINS, Jack Maxwell

Service Number: 118650
Enlisted: 21 September 1942
Last Rank: Aircraftman
Last Unit: No. 1 Wireless Air Gunnery School Ballarat
Born: Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 7 November 1923
Home Town: Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 20 February 1943, aged 19 years
Cemetery: Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria
Plot A Row A Grave 2, Ballarat (New) General Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement 118650
21 Sep 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 118650, No. 1 Wireless Air Gunnery School Ballarat
21 Sep 1942: Enlisted 118650

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Leading Aircraftman Jack Maxwell Higgins 118650 of Number 1 Wireless and Gunnery School Ballarat died from injuries sustained in a truck accident near Newlyn in Victoria

Also killed was a civilian: Harold Maxwell Barrett (16) of Ballarat