Frank Heilgers

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers (25 June 1892 – 16 January 1944) 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, earning a mentioned in dispatches. He was also a Royal Artillery officer.

Early life and education

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

Work

Heilgers was elected as MP for Bury St Edmunds at the 1931 general election. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture from 1935 to 1936, to the Minister of Pensions from 1937 to 1940, and the First Commissioner of Works in 1939–40. He was awarded the Silver Medal of the RSPCA for promoting the passage of the Riding Establishment Act into Law, 1939. He was laid to rest in Bardwell churchyard.