John Campbell HIGGINS

HIGGINS, John Campbell

Service Number: 419178
Enlisted: 17 July 1942
Last Rank: Warrant Officer
Last Unit: No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Born: Mildura , Victoria, Australia, 4 May 1923
Home Town: Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Flying Accident), Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia, 27 August 1945, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria
War Graves Plot C. Row D. Grave 7, Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Warrant Officer, 419178
17 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
17 Jul 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 419178

Dive-bombing exercise

When his Kittyhawk crashed in Mildura yesterday during a dive-bombing exercise,
W/O John Campbell Higgins, of Black Rock, was killed.

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Edward Valentine Bindon Higgins and Jean Aitchieson Higgins of Black Rock, Victoria

Pilot of Kittyhawk aircraft A29-190 of Number 2 Operational Training Unit which crashed near Wentworth, NSW