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Ivan Vernon Higby
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Ivan Vernon Higby
Corporal
Company ‘A’, 101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Division, US Army
November 4, 1895
Yarmouth, NS
1917
Massachusetts
Boston, Mass. US
22 (estimated)
fair
light brown
light blue
Single
unknown
Baptist
unknown
October 27, 1918
23
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial
Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France
G Row 5 Grave 24
Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial
Corporal Ivan Vernon Higby 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. 1890-1919), Mildred E. Higby (1893-1918), Charles Ernest Higby
(1894-1958), Margaret Elizabeth (Higby) Holmes (1897-1985), James Albert Higby (1900-1980), and
John Clark Higby (1902-1977).
Ivan’s brother James Albert Higby (Service Number 46922) served with the 64th Battalion of the
Canada Expeditionary Forces and his brother Charles Ernest Higby (Service Number 734220) served
with the Royal Canadian Regiment, both in WWI.
In 1910 he was living with his aunt, Mrs. Leo Sherman in Yarmouth. He left Yarmouth on January 26,
1910 at the age of fourteen travelling with his grandmother, Margaret Higby, to live with his aunt, Mrs.
Clair E. Beveridge, of 45 Saratoga St, East Boston, Mass. Ivan was a student at that time and intended
to live in the United States permanently.
The 26th Infantry Division was formed on July 18, 1917 and activated on August 22, 1917 at Camp
Edwards, MA, consisting of units from the New England area. The division's commander selected the
nickname "Yankee Division" to highlight the division's geographic make-up. Sent to Europe in World
War I as part of the American Expeditionary
Forces, the division saw extensive combat in
France.
The division was part of the offensive at St.
Mihiel, during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel (1918)
and the division then moved in position for the
last major offensive of the war, at Meuse-
Argonne.
Corporal Higby was killed in action on October
27, 1918.
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts · Tuesday, November 11, 1919
