Lance Corporal Edward D. Higham

Army Number: 17591

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham and lived at 23 Arundel Street, Nottingham. Son of Peter Jonathan and Mary Elizabeth Higham, of 23, Arundel Street, Nottingham. He was educated at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham before moving to Bentham Grammar School and Ingleton Rectory, Yorkshire. He was a bank clerk at Lloyds Bank prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 6th March 1915 and was killed in action, on 11th March 1915 during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Lance Corporal E. D. Higham is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham.
High Pavement School War Memorial, (Nottingham Archives), Nottingham.