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OBE Fredrick Higham
« on: Sunday 23 July 23 11:30 BST (UK) »
I just found out that my grandmothers grandfather was an OBE. He was born in 1878 and died in  1960.  He was an impressive man with some impressive titles. He was a Gasworks Manager and a Special Constable. In the First world war he saved two people from drowning in a heroic effort. I’d like to know more about his sons does anybody have any info. Fredrick Sydney Hingham and Arthur Lawrence Higham.

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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 23 July 23 18:47 BST (UK) »

Welcome to RootsChat  :)

For starters and according to FreeBMD https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl, their probable birth records-

Birth Jan-Mar 1902   
Higham    Arthur Laurence        Sculcoates    9d   183

Birth Apr-Jun 1905   
Higham    Frederick Sidney        Beverley        9d   99


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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 July 23 19:27 BST (UK) »
Welcome to RootsChat  :D

Looks like Arthur married:-

Marriages Jun 1929
Higham    Arthur L    Ibbotson    Worksop    7b   67   
Ibbotson    Mabel    Higham    Worksop    7b   67

Most likely death for Arthur:-

HIGHAM, ARTHUR  LAURENCE     1901 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q3/1991 in BEVERLEY  (5422)  Volume 7  Page 56

Date of birth on Find My Past is given as 16 December 1901

Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 23 July 23 19:34 BST (UK) »
Looks as though Frederick died young:-

HIGHAM, FREDERICK  SIDNEY     23 
GRO Reference: 1928  J Quarter in SCULCOATES  Volume 09D  Page 148
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 23 July 23 19:40 BST (UK) »

Arthur Lawrence (aged 9) and Frederick Sidney (aged 6) in the England and Wales Census, 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7RB-TV9


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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 23 July 23 19:53 BST (UK) »

Welcome to RootsChat


FIND A GRAVE

Frederick Sydney Higham  1905 - 1928


St Mary the Virgin Churchyard
Elloughton, East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority, East Riding of Yorkshire.

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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 23 July 23 19:56 BST (UK) »
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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 23 July 23 20:00 BST (UK) »
Looks like son Arthur was a chip of the old block:

Higham, Arthur L., aged 15 Case 43488

At 10.40 a.m. on the 21st July, 1917, a naval airship fell into the Humber at Brough about 30 yards from the side. Arthur L. Higham, aged 15, swam out and succeeded in saving one man.
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Re: OBE Fredrick Higham
« Reply #8 on: Monday 24 July 23 19:59 BST (UK) »
The father and son were very brave rescuing 2 men from drowning after an air ship crash

Here's a photo of Arthur Lawrence HIGHAM as a scout .

I wonder how his brother Frederick Sydney died he was only 23

Sorry reply 6 shows he died in a sanatorium so probably had tuberculosis
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