Post by BereniceUK on May 13, 2017 7:30:51 GMT
30805 Private Stanley Higgs, 1st Welsh Regiment. Died 21st April 1915, aged 38. Son of Ronald Stanley Higgs, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire; husband of Christina Higgs, of High Road, Whetstone, London.
The news of the death at the front of Private Stanley Higgs caused much gloom at Milford Haven, of which place he was a native. He was always very popular amongst his fellows. A finely built fellow, he was the son of a Crimean Veteran and had fighting blood in him. Many remember how he was one of the first four volunteers to leave Milford for the front in the Boer War, one of his companions then was Pte. Vaughan Thomas, who also enlisted in the present campaign and has just been home on sick leave from the front. Stanley was very keen to get out again on this occasion and was anxious to do his bit. The news that he has met his death, so soon after being drafted out, was especially felt on the fish market where he had worked from his boyhood. He was foreman packer with Messrs. J. Hellings & Son' fish salesmen.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 12th May 1915)
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Second Lieutenant Harold Picton Bamkin, 7th Suffolk Regiment. 19th July 1915, aged 20. Son of Ernest Picton Bamkin and Lilian Margaret Bamkin, of Thornton Hall, Milford Haven.
Second-Lieutenant Harold Picton Bamkin, 7th Suffolk Regiment, has been killed while assisting a wounded comrade under fire. The gallant officer, who was only 20 years of age, was the son of Mr E. Picton Bamkin, of Brixton, and Thornton House, Milford Haven, and was educated at Dulwich College and Jesus College, Oxford.
In a letter to Mr Bamkin, Lieut. Colonel C. Parry Crooke, announcing the young officer's death, writes: -
"He had taken a party of scouts out in front of our trenches to examine a portion of the German lines, and while they were going forward one of the scouts was badly wounded. Your son in the most gallant way at once went to his assistance, and while in the act of helping, he was himself mortally wounded. The remaining scouts at once brought your son into our trenches and his wound was attended to, but I am sorry to say he only lived a few minutes. The one consolation is that he suffered no pain and met his death in the brave act of assisting a wounded comrade under fire. Your son as scout officer has done exceptionally good work, nothing being too difficult or dangerous for him to do, and we all feel his loss terribly."
The deceased young officer was a grandson of the late Mr Bamkin, headmaster of the Milford Haven Board School.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 28th July 1915)
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The news of the death at the front of Private Stanley Higgs caused much gloom at Milford Haven, of which place he was a native. He was always very popular amongst his fellows. A finely built fellow, he was the son of a Crimean Veteran and had fighting blood in him. Many remember how he was one of the first four volunteers to leave Milford for the front in the Boer War, one of his companions then was Pte. Vaughan Thomas, who also enlisted in the present campaign and has just been home on sick leave from the front. Stanley was very keen to get out again on this occasion and was anxious to do his bit. The news that he has met his death, so soon after being drafted out, was especially felt on the fish market where he had worked from his boyhood. He was foreman packer with Messrs. J. Hellings & Son' fish salesmen.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 12th May 1915)
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Second Lieutenant Harold Picton Bamkin, 7th Suffolk Regiment. 19th July 1915, aged 20. Son of Ernest Picton Bamkin and Lilian Margaret Bamkin, of Thornton Hall, Milford Haven.
HEROIC MILFORD OFFICER.
Second-Lieutenant Harold Picton Bamkin, 7th Suffolk Regiment, has been killed while assisting a wounded comrade under fire. The gallant officer, who was only 20 years of age, was the son of Mr E. Picton Bamkin, of Brixton, and Thornton House, Milford Haven, and was educated at Dulwich College and Jesus College, Oxford.
In a letter to Mr Bamkin, Lieut. Colonel C. Parry Crooke, announcing the young officer's death, writes: -
"He had taken a party of scouts out in front of our trenches to examine a portion of the German lines, and while they were going forward one of the scouts was badly wounded. Your son in the most gallant way at once went to his assistance, and while in the act of helping, he was himself mortally wounded. The remaining scouts at once brought your son into our trenches and his wound was attended to, but I am sorry to say he only lived a few minutes. The one consolation is that he suffered no pain and met his death in the brave act of assisting a wounded comrade under fire. Your son as scout officer has done exceptionally good work, nothing being too difficult or dangerous for him to do, and we all feel his loss terribly."
The deceased young officer was a grandson of the late Mr Bamkin, headmaster of the Milford Haven Board School.
(Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 28th July 1915)
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