HIGGINSON, Charles Bingham
| Service Number: | 399 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 5 September 1877 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | District Magistrate P.N.G., Mining Executive |
| Died: | Kukipi, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, 29 September 1930, aged 53 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board |
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Charles Bingham Higginson enlsited in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as Mrs. E. Higginson, c/- R. Newton, Adelaide St, Brisbane. In the original nominal roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is recorded as being his mother.
His older brother John Bingham Higginson also served twice in the Boer war, Private S.N. 45, 2nd QMI and Lieut., 5th QIB.
Charles Bingham Higginson was born on 5 Sep 1877 in Queensland, a son to James Clinton Higginson and Elizabeth Higginson (nee Ord). He married Ivy Laura Hellman on 20 May 1912 at St Paul's Church, Samarai, P.N.G. and they had 3 children.
He had been appointed as a Senior Magistrate in "the Possession" Papua around 1903 and lived there while serving as a magistrate until the early 1920's when the family relocated to Chatswood, NSW. He continued to spend time working in PNG, at the time of his passing he was the Commonwealth representative at the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's field at Popo.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 517; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 6; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 176).
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