Frank Heilgers

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers (25 June 1892 – 16 January 1944)[1] was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) who was killed in a train crash during World War II.

He fought in World War I in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine,[2] earning a mentioned in dispatches.

[3] Heilgers was from Bardwell in Suffolk and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.

[7] He was awarded the Silver Medal of the RSPCA for promoting the passage of the Riding Establishment Act into Law, 1939.

[7] He farmed over 1,000 acres in the county and was a breeder of British Friesian cattle and Large Black pigs.