Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant A. V. Higgs, Cheshire Regiment, later Royal Navy

1914 Star (896 Sjt. A. Higgs. 6/Ches: R.); British War and Victory Medals (896 Sjt. A. Higgs. Ches. R.) mounted for wear, light contact marks otherwise good very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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Albert Victor Higgs was born at South Shields on 14 January 1892 and attested for the Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Force) on 1 November 1909, at the age of 17 years and 9 months. He was embodied for war service on 5 August 1914, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 November 1914. He was discharged from the Depot ‘time expired’ on termination of his engagement in the Territorial Force on 31 October 1915.

On 7 December 1915 Higgs attested for service in the Royal Navy as 2nd Cook’s Mate, on a ‘Hostilities only’ engagement. He served in H.M.S. Victory I, H.M.S. Hindustan and H.M.S. Venerable, rising to Cook’s Mate. He was shore demobilised on 13 March 1919 and subsequently joined the St. Helens Borough Police.