Harold Henry HIGGS MID

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Service Number:	17
Enlisted:	20 August 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	4th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia, 5 June 1890
Home Town:	Drouin, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Nephritis and Bronchial Pneumonia, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 2 October 1959, aged 69 years
Cemetery:	Drouin Public Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Drouin West Honor Roll

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 17, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Driver, 17, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Driver, 17, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
23 Mar 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4th Light Horse Regiment
2 Jan 1917:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 4 January 1917, page 254, position 9. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1917, page 1391, position 61
24 Jan 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 17, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of John Higgs and Sarah Ann Higgs nee Norman of Drouin, Victoria later of Whittlesea, Victoria.

Commenced retrun to Australia on 24 September 1918

During 1921c Harold married Ella Jeanette Blithehome Seyers in Melbourne, Victoria