Wing Commander Frederick "Taffy" Higginson OBE DFC DFM (17 February 1913 – 12 February 2003), was a fighter ace of the Royal Air Force during World War II.The Flight Sergeant was part of the deployment which went to Dunkirk in 1940, where he became an ace within the first six months of the war. Awarded the DFM and commissioned as a Flight Lieutenant, by the time he was shot down over Lille in 1941, he had reached a tally of 15 victories.