Charles Hodgson Higgins, Lieutenant

Lieutenant Charles Hodgson Higgins, a veteran of both world wars, is remembered by Rhonda Young and John Higgins.

Charles Hodgson Higgins was born in 1893 in Aldershot, England and died in 1970. He served in both world wars and also as a professor of botany at Cambridge in England. Charles attended the Valcartier Training Camp in Quebec, CA in 1914 and then returned to England to serve in the West Yorkshire Regiment for the duration of WWI. He was a member of the 13th Reserve Batallion in the 4th New Army, 2nd Reserve Brigade, 6th Reserve Batallion. He was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in The Battle of the Somme and The Third Battle of Ypres. In 1940, Charles received a Regular Army Emergency Commission to serve as a Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Book dedicated: 24 Hours at the Somme : 1 July 1916 by Robert Kershaw