Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers was a British Member of Parliament who was killed in a train crash during World War II.
Heilgers was from Bardwell in Suffolk and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He fought in World War I earning a Mentioned in Despatches.[1]
He was elected as member of parliament for Bury St Edmunds in a by-election on 27 October, 1931. Heilgers was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture from 1935 to 1936, and to the Minister of Pensions from 1937 to 1940.[1][2]
Heilgers was a JP and was awarded the Silver Medal of the RSPCA for promoting the passage of the Riding Establishment Act into Law, 1939.[1]
Lieutenant-Colonel Heilgers, a Royal Artillery officer, was killed in a train crash in Ilford in January 1944. He was laid to rest in Bardwell Churchyard.[1]
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Walter Guiness |
Member for Bury St Edmunds 1931–1944 |
Succeeded by Edgar Mayne Keatinge |
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