Sgt. Higdon was serving with 57 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I ME679 DX-K which took off from East Kirkby on a mission to Schweinfurt. The aircraft collided with another near Oberkirchen. Seven crew were killed and one taken prisoner of war.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
He is remembered in Birtley on B127.01
