Family group:

Four: Sapper W. Higgins, Royal Engineers, late East Yorkshire Regiment, who died, 4 January 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4661 Pte., East Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4661 Pte., E. York. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (16773 Pte., E. York. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (16773 Pte., E. York. R.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Higgins), in card envelope; together with an erased British War Medal 1914-20

Five: H. R. Shaw, British Army

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, very fine and better (11) £220-260

Walter Higgins was born in Manchester, and living in Brimington, Derbyshire, enlisted at Chesterfield. Serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment in South Africa, he was attached to the 5th Mounted Infantry. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 July 1915. He later transferred to the 58th Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers, as Sapper 247267. He died on 4 January 1918 and was buried in the Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte. He was the son of John and Ann Higgins of Brimington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Sold with letter to Mrs Higgins, the wife of Walter, from Lieutenant G. Salway Nicol, C.O. 58th A.W. Coy., R.E., dated 14 January 1918, expressing sympathy on behalf of the officers and men of the unit; Memorial Plaque enclosure; a letter re. employment to Mrs A. Shaw of Brimington, in envelope dated 2 August 1940. Medals to Shaw in card forwarding box, with forwarding slip, addressed to Mr H. R. Shaw of 16 Cemetery Terrace, Chesterfield Road, Brimington. With some copied research. It is believed that H. R. Shaw was the son-in-law of Walter Higgins.