Four: Regimental Sergeant-Major Benjamin Higgs, Essex Regiment

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (2654417 W.O. Cl.2 B. Higgs, Essex.) the last rare to the regiment, good very fine (4)
£250-300

Benjamin Higgs originally joined the Coldstream Guards but transferred to the Essex Regiment in the early 1930s, serving with the 2nd Battalion in France 1939-40. He was promoted to Regimental Sergeant-Major (W.O.1) in 1951 but subsequently reverted to W.O.2, serving as a Company Sergeant-Major in the King’s African Rifles during the Mau Mau rebellion. He is believed to be one of only three members of the regiment to qualify for the Kenya medal. He had left the Army by 1957 and died in 1979.

Sold with research notes and extracts from the regimental magazine.