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Charles Ernest Higby 734220 Private 112th Battalion; Royal Canadian Regiment May 19, 1894 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia March 13, 1916 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 21 5 feet, 8 inches Light Auburn Brown Single Steam Ship Waiter Baptist Mrs. Dora Hall (Mother) Yarmouth, NS March 13, 1919 Yarmouth, NS September 2, 1958 Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Charles was the son of Samuel Ernest Higby (b.1865) and Adorah Mae (Crowell) Higby (b.1871- 1952) of Chegoggin, Yarmouth Co., NS. His father was a stove-fitter. With the death of his father, his mother remarried Harry Hall in 1913. His siblings were Mabel S. Higby (b. 1890-1819), Mildred E. Higby (1893-1918), Ivan Vernon Higby (1895-1918), Margaret Elizabeth (Higby) Holmes (1897-1985), James Albert Higby (1900-1980)and John Clark Higby (1902-1977). His brother, Ivan Vernon Higby served with the 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, United States Army and was killed in action in France on October 27, 1918. Another brother, James Albert Higby (Service Number 469228) served with the 64th and 25th Battalions in World War I. Charles, prior to his enlistment, served with the 29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery in Yarmouth, NS. He enlisted with the 112th Battalion and went overseas disembarking in England on July 31, 1916. He proceeded to France and was taken on strength with the Royal Canadian Regiment on April 14, 1917. While in France, he was hospitalized on several occasions for illness (trench fever/exhaustion and dysentery) and returned to his unit in the field upon recovery. Charles returned to England on February 6, 1919, and embarked for Canada on March 1, 1919. Discharged on demobilization he returned to Yarmouth, NS. Post WWI, Charles was a retail fish merchant and dealer. He married Kathleen Lavinia Daley on March 23, 1920. Kathleen was born in Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS in 1897. Following her death in 1936, Charles married Elizabeth Evelyn Gray in 1938. Charles Higby died in 1958 at the age of 64 and is buried in Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, NS.