Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers (25 June 1892 – 16 January 1944) was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) who was killed in a train crash during World War II

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Heilgers was from Bardwell

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 in Suffolk and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford

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. He fought in World War I

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 earning a Mentioned in Despatches.

He was elected as MP for Bury St Edmunds

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 at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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. Heilgers was Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to the Minister of Agriculture from 1935 to 1936, and to the Minister of Pensions from 1937 to 1940.

Heilgers was a JP

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 and was awarded the Silver Medal of the RSPCA for promoting the passage of the Riding Establishment Act into Law, 1939.

Lieutenant-Colonel Heilgers, a Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

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 officer, was killed in the 1944 Ilford rail crash He was laid to rest in Bardwell Churchyard.

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