| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 3DRL/0421 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 4 cm |
| Object type | Letter, Typescript, Newspaper cutting |
| Maker |
Higgins, Mervyn Bournes Various |
| Place made | Australia, Egypt, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, United Kingdom: England |
| Date made | 1915-1918 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/5/439 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Higgins, Mervyn Bournes (Captain, b.1887 - d.1916)
Description
Collection relating to the First World War service of Captain Mervyn Bournes Higgins, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. Collection consists of a bound volume of typed transcripts of letters and extracts, telegrams, reports, etc written by various people between 1915 and 1918. The typescripts consists of: a few letters written by Higgins to his mother (including one handwritten letter); descriptions of events at Gallipoli that Higgins would have participated in; condolence letters written to his father the Hon Mr Justice Henry Bournes Higgins KC following the death of his son at Magdhaba on 23 December 1916. Also included is a news cutting from 1915 entitled "Battle Ended - Lone Pine Trenches Taken - Another Attack Fails", and a 1917 letter to the Hon Mr Justice Henry Bournes Higgins KC notifying him of the award of Mentioned in Despatches made to his son.
History / Summary
Biographical notes: Captain Mervyn Bournes Higgins, Adjutant, HQ, 8 Australian Light Horse. Mentioned in Despatches. Killed in action 23 December 1916. Age 29. Son of Justice Henry Bournes Higgins and Mary Alice Higgins, of Doona, Malvern, Victoria, Australia.