Sergeant Edward Higham

Army Number: 10811

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Husband of Rose Higham, of “California”, Wolverton Rd., Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, aged 33, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Buried: Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 6. Row C. Grave 7.

Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France.