Roll of Honour 2023

P AG 55

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name JOHN PHILIP HIGGS (Lt)

Lef SES 1909

Roll Number 1071 Died 14:04:1918

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1900

Where DORMART, AMIENS, FRANCE Serving with MACHINE GUN CORPS

Age 28

Buried Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, Picardie, France Remembered The St. Edward Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born 1890 in Kidlington, Oxon, he was the the School a long time, arriving at the age of ten. He was a School Prefect, a member of the Cricket XI in 1907 and the Rugby Football XV in 1906, a Sergeant in the OTC. And in the VIth Form He won an Open Classical Exhibition to Worcester College, Oxford in 1909 where he achieved a 2nd Class in Classical Mods in 1911, a Ewelme Scholarship and a Fourth in Litt. Hum in 1913. He played for his College Rugby Football XV and rowed in the Torpids. He left for Kano, Nigeria as a Civil Servant in 1913, working amongst the Hausas people before returning in 1914 to enlist in the war effort. Commissioned in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars in September 1914 he was badly wounded in the knee on the Western Front in November. On returning to active duty in July 1915 he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment in King’s Lynn, later changing to the Machine Gun Corps in October 1916. He was badly wounded again a year later when promoted to Lieutenant. Wounded yet again in December 1917, this time so severely that he died of his wounds at Dormant, near Amiens in France. He was buried in the Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, Picardie.