|
|
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Site Home
Help & FAQs
Features
Submissions
Information
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Albert James Heasman
British Army 11th Battalion Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:Battersea, London
(d.25th June 1916)
At the end of June 1916, the 11th Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment were in the trenches north east of Bethune in Northern France and subject to enemy shelling on its position. On the 25th of June 1916 the shelling continued and the artillery was active both day and night. It appears Albert Heasman was injured as a result of this shelling. He was admitted to No.1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, where he died of his wounds on the 25th of June 1916. He was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Pte. Charles Heasman
British Army 8th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Kent
(d.18th Aug 1916)
Private Charles Heasman from Kent. Served with 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment. Died 18th August 1916. Charles was my great uncle. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. A. Heath
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. Albert Reginald Heath
British Army 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
(d.16th March 1918)
Sgt. Albert Heath
British Army 22nd Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Fenton
Albert Heath served with 22nd Heavy Battery, RGA.
Cpl. Arthur Heath
British Army 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Arthur Heath was my grandfather, he joined up in November 1914 when his one & only son Arthur was just 1 month old. He joined one of the Pals Battalions that was raised by the Lord Mayor of Manchester. He was in C Company, Platoon XII. A photograph with his platoon is attached, along with the list of names of those shown. Arthur is my Grand Father & when he died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme he left behind not just his son, but a widow & two daughters, one of which was my Mother. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France. His civilian life entailed working as a barman at the time of his marriage to Emily in 1904. He also worked as a bar steward for Manchester Liners & one of the ships he sailed on was the Manchester Importer. Just before he volunteered to join the Army he was working for the Charles MacIntosh Rubber Works in Manchester. It would be nice to hear from anybody who's Grand Father is also pictured in the attached Platoon Photograph & named in the second attachment. Arthur was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme with the Manchester Pals. He has no known grave & his name is on the Thiepval Monument. He left behind a wife, two daughters, one of which was my mother, & a very young son who was born after he enlisted in 1914. My Mother had just started school when she received at least two letters from him. One of which he sent his kind regards to her schoolteacher & hoped that he would get to meet her when he came home. The family do not know if this ever took place as we are not sure if he ever got leave before he was killed? We are aware that he was very proud to have a son who was named after him. Unfortunately Arthur Heath Junior died when he was eight, so my Grandmother had a double tragedy to deal with.
Arthur's mother, Mary Ellen Huddart, married Charles Frederick Heath on the 05/06/1887 when Arthur was 6 years old. It is not known who Arthur's biological father was. Charles Frederick appears to have taken the boy as his own as according to the 1891 census the 10 year old Arthur is stated as the son of Charles Frederick. In 1904 Arthur married Emily Carter, a widow, & they had 3 children, one of which was my Mother. Before volunteering for the Manchester Pals 7th City 22nd Battalion, Arthur was working for a shipping company operating out of the Manchester Ship Canal. His son, Arthur Frederick, was born on the 23rd October 1914, a matter of weeks before his father, Arthur Heath, volunteered as part of a recruitment drive by the then Lord Mayor of Manchester. The family assumed that his baby son was born after Arthur volunteered. We will never know why a man of 33 years would volunteer, leaving behind a new born son & two young daughters. We can only assume, like thousands of others, he truly believed the propaganda, that it would all be over by Christmas.
Sgt. Arthur Robert Heath
British Army 128th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Barrowell Nursery, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
Arthur Heath served with 128th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Pte. Arthur Heath
British Army 1st Btn. South Staffs Regiment
from:Boney Hay,Staffs
(d.1st July 1915)
Sgt. Arthur Robert Heath
British Army 128th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Winchmore Hill
My grandfather, Arthur Heath, enlisted into the RGA on 20th of October 1915 and went to France on 23rd of March 1916 with 128th Heavy Battery. He served as a gun layer through the war and was slightly wounded on 23rd of March 1918, but remained at duty. He received the Victory Medal and British War Medal. He had two periods of leave at home during his service and first saw my mother when she was 18 months old, as she had been born six weeks after he was sent to France.
My grandmother recalled how, when he arrived home, he stripped naked on the doorstep and left all his lice-ridden clothing outside and immediately had a bath. She then picked up his underclothes and shirt with the coal tongs and put them in the copper for washing immediately, and ironed his trousers and tunic to kill the lice and eggs, which popped as the hot iron went over them.
At the end of the war, his father asked for his release from the army as he was needed in the market garden business run by the family and he was discharged on 4th of February 1919.
Ernest Frank Heath
British Army Royal West Kent Regiment
from:65 High Street Beckenham Kent
Ernest Heath served with the West Kents, he was married to Edith Hollier, and had three children Frank Jabez, Kathleen and Dorothy. Ernest died in 1921 due to effects of mustard gas.
Pte. Eustace Nelson Heath
British Army 16th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:The Laurels, Barrowell Green, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex.
(d.10th Jan 1916)
Eustace Heath joined up when he was only 16 years old. He went to France with the battalion on 17th of November 1915, and was killed on 10th of January 1916 near Cuinchy when a shell landed on the billet he was in. He was killed before he ever went into action. Eustace Heath is buried in Cambrin Military Cemetery, Calais.
Frank Jabez Heath
British Army Rifle Brigade
from:Beckenham, Kent
Rfmn. George Robert Heath
British Army 7th Batallion Kings Royal Rifles
from:Borrowdale Road, Northfield, Birmingham
My grandfather, George Robert Heath (no A1426), who lived in Borrowdale Road, Northfield, Birmingham served with the 7th Battalion of the Kings Royle Rifle Corp (KRRC). He signed up on 22nd August 1914 (his 20th birthday). After initial training in the UK he arrived in France on 18 May 1915 and went to the front line around the Belgium town of Ypres. He was involved in the trench warfare there - notably on the 30 July 1915 he was in the unit in the trenches at Railway Wood (opposite Bellewaarde Farm) where flamethrowers were first used against British forces. In the battle that took place his Battalion incurred heavy casualties (13 officers and 289 men out of around 1000 in the battalion). He spent from May 1915 to February 1916 fighting in the Ypres area before then being moved down to Arras where he was based until 29 July 1916. At this time the 7th Battalion KRRC moved to billets around Albert ready to join the Battle of the Somme.
At the Somme my grandfather was involved in major conflicts on the 18th August and the 15th September. On the 18th August the 7th Battalion KRRC attacked and captured, suffering heavy casualties (3 officers and 42 men killed and 3 officers and 174 men wounded), the German Orchard Trench which was in the notorious area of Delville Wood. After this they were taken out of the front line in order to bring new recruits to the Battalion and to give those soldiers, involved in the conflict since they entered France, a much needed rest. Some of the soldiers were taken, in two groups of 30, to Ault on the French coast. They returned into action on the 15th September 1916, again in trenches by Delville Wood, to take part in the notorious Battle of Flers- Courcellette. This is of note since it is the first time that tanks were used in the war. The tanks were used to good effect and much ground was taken. It was, however, at this Battle where my grandfather was shot and wounded. He remained in no-mans land for a period of days before he was recovered and, expected to die, returned to hospital in the UK. Whilst suffering permanent injury to his shoulder and chest he did in fact survive and was invalided out of the army, declared unfit for active service on the 29th od May 1917. During this Battle the of Fler-Courcellette casualties for the Battalion were again high with 34 killed, 189 wounded and 120 missing.
Eventually after his return to the UK he married Emma Gittins on 8th February 1919. Emma had two children, Charles and Margaret, from her previous marriage to Charles Anthony Gittins. Charles Gittins served in the 2/6 Batallion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was killed in action on 26th August 1917 in Flanders. His grave is at Zonnebeke. George and Emma went on to have 5 children, George, Joan, Olive, Sid and John and in total of 12 grandchildren.
Spr. George Heath
British Army 96th Field Coy Royal Engineers
from:Wincham, Cheshire
(d.13th Jan 1918)
George Heath from Wincham (near Northwich) Cheshire, was serving with 96th Field Coy R.E. He died from wounds aged 38 on 13 Jan 1918. He is buried in Railway dugouts Burial Grounds (Transport Farm) Cemetery, Ypres. Before the war George was a locomotive fireman (1901 census), then a stationary engine driver (1911 census).
Bmdr. George Henry Heath MM.
British Army 176th Brigade, 235 Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Leicester
George Heath was born at Leicester on 15th April 1892, the son of Henry and Mary Elizabeth Heath (nee Goodman). After leaving school he became a shoe hand. He married Charlotte Mary Goodman at Leicester Register Office on 8 November 1913 and they initially lived at Asfordby Street, Leicester.
He joined the 176th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery at Leicester on 15th of June 1915 and received the number 32235. Assigned to the 235th Battery, he was a Bombardier and driver with the said unit.
He underwent an operation for varicose veins at Frensham Hill in February 1919, and following the success of that operation he was transferred on 6th April 1919. Transferred to Class Z Army reserve on 2nd May 1919 and subsequently discharged. Returning to Leicester and 3 Ullswater Street, he was awarded the Military Medal on 19th August 1919 (received 24th February 1921).
As of 1939 he was still at 3 Ullswater Street, Leicester, and employed as a tramway conductor. He died at Leicester in 1973, having had three sons with Charlotte, namely Henry Alfred (b.1914), George Arthur (b.1916) and John Edward (b.1922). I am conducting research on behalf of a Mr. John Heath of Wigston, Leicester, a kinsman of George.
Cpl. John Doulton Heath
British Army 7th Btn Black Watch
from:Cupar, East Fife
John Doulton Heath was my grandfather who drove ambulances in France and Belgium during the Great War. I have studio photos of him in uniform and in France by vehicles with colleagues. I also have postcards sent from France by him to my father.
Pte. Peter Gabriel Heath
British Army 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Rowley Regis
(d.20th Aug 1916)
My great-uncle, only discovered whilst researching my family tree, Peter Heath died on 20th of August 1916, when he was 35 years old. He was a Private with the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment and is buried in the Bazentin-le-Petit Cemetery Extension in Somme, France.
Pte. William James Heath
British Army Cheshire Regiment
from:10 Acacia Road. Beckenham, Kent
William James Heath born Oct. 1885. Parents were John Heath and Elizabeth Stubbs. Siblings were Elizabeth, Ellen and Frank Ernest also served in WW1 with the Royal East Bucks. Willie married Susannah Brooks in 1920 in Hampshire. He worked as a battery maker/electrician.
Willie James Heath served with the Cheshire Regiment. Regiment number 21114. He saw action in France where he was injured. Place of discharged was Shrewbury on July 18, 1917 at the age of 27 years 8 months. Willie height was 5 feet and half. I have come across four other Wiliam James Heath who served in WW1.
Sgt. William Heath
British Army 22nd (Queens) Battalion London Regiment
from:Bermondsey
Willie James Heath
British Army
from:10 Acacia Road. Beckenham, Kent
Willie Heath was born in October 1885 to John Heath and Elizabeth Stubbs. His siblings were Elizabeth, Ellen and Ernest Frank Heath. In 1911 be was working as a battery maker living at 10 Acacia Road, Beckenham Kent. After the war he married Susannah Brooks.
Gnr. Eric Whiteley Heathcote
British Army B Bty. 63rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Battersea
(d.15th July 1917)
Registered at birth as Herrick, he became known as Eric Heathcote. My father, Eric John Heathcote, in 1920, was named after his late uncle.
Dvr. Sidney Heathcote MM.
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:South Wigston, Leicester
My Grand Uncle Sidney Heathcote served during WWI and on 21st of October 1916 was admitted to Hospital Ship St Andrew for transport to England. He had been admitted to the brigade medical station on 13/10/16 with Dental Caries (rotting teeth) I think. He recovered from this and went on to survive the war being awarded the Military Medal for Bravery in the Field in Sep 1917, with final discharge in Jan 1919.
Pte. Walter Dean Heathcote
British Army 9th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Brighton, Sussex
(d.5th April 1918)
Walter Heathcote was killed near Senlis Mill on 5th April 1918 and was buried at Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery. This information is provided by his niece: Mrs Rosemary Tracey who did not know her uncle but well remembers the on-going grief suffered by her mother (Mrs M. Stapleton) - sister of Pte. Heathcote. Walter and his sister were born and lived in Brighton, Sussex and his name is recorded on the Steine war memorial in Brighton.
Gnr. Frederick Heatley
British Army 405th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Manchester
(d.26th Jul 1917)
Frederick Heatley was born on 16th August 1892 in Carlisle to James and Catherine Heatley, shortly after that his family moved to Manchester. Frederick married Ann Burnside on the 11th September 1911. The couple had 3 children (Frederick, Joseph and Jane).
Frederick signed up for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16th November 1914, he was 23 years and 3 months old. He was sent to Weymouth on the 4th December 1914 and joined the 30th Siege Battery in February 1915. In March he moved to the 28th Siege Battery and was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 11th of August 1915.
He was imprisoned for 1 month in June 1916 for being Absent without leave, drunkenness and conduct to the prejudice of good order. While confined he damaged his cell and was ordered to pay 20 Francs in damages. Frederick's soldier's record states that he developed haemoptysis (coughing up blood) in the field on 21st October 1916 and was sent to England from Boulogne on the ship HS Jan Breydel. He returned back to depot then on to Tilshead in Wiltshire, following which he joined the 405th Siege Battery in March 1917.
Gunner Heatley died on 26th of July 1917, he is buried at Lindehoek Chalet Military Cemetery, Kemmel in Belgium.
Cpl. George Heatley
British Army 17th Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Liverpool
George Heatley was fighting in France when he was shot. He was listed on 13th of April 1918 as wounded and missing. On the 30th of October 1918 he is listed as a prisoner of war at Steñdal. He is also listed as being in a German hospital at Beaumont la Chappille. He was demobbed on 2nd of April 1919.
Pte. Henry Heatley
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Alnwick
My grandfather Henry Heatley told me of being at Salisbury Plain in WWI and seeing the first tanks there.
2nd Lt. Charles Frederick Heatly
British Army 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Hillside, 29 Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, N7
(d.17th April 1918)
Charles was the second son of Henry and Kate Heatly of Tufnell Park, and was born in 1894. He was killed in the Armntieres area. He had attended University College School. His elder brother, Henry, was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire, (Alexandra, Princess of Wales Own)and was killed while attached to the E, Lancs Regt on the 22.2.1915 at Croix-barbee.
Cpl. Charles William Heaton
British Army 8th Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Liverpool
My maternal grandfather, Charles William Heaton, was born on the 9th August 1895 in Dyke Street Everton, Lancashire. He attended St. John's Church in Everton where he was a choirboy. According to my mother, he had a fine baritone voice as a man. He possessed a fine collection of books (many of which have been passed down to my mother), including the complete works of William Shakespeare as well as books on history and philosophy, gramophone records, and pianola rolls. At the age of 15, Charles moved from Everton to Bloomsbury, London, where was apprenticed to his uncle as a French polisher. Soon after the start of the Great War, on 8 September 1914, Charles enlisted in the army. He joined the King's Light Shropshire Infantry, which he facetiously referred to as ˜The King's Silly Little Idiots. His serial number was W3626, his regimental number was 13701, and he held the rank of Corporal. He served in Greece - we have his pay-book, showing he was paid in drachmas. After contracting and suffering from malaria, he received a war pension of 13 shillings a month. On 23 February 1919, he was demobbed and transferred to Army Reserves, Shrewsbury. According to my mother, he was a highly principled man and a firm Socialist both by nature and politically. He may also have been at one time a member of the Communist Party. He received the daily paper - The Daily Worker and Russia Today, which were the mouthpieces of the party. He was a staunch supporter of the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association and became President at Branch 54 in Liverpool. He would often leave the family at home whilst he went to his club at the Union's Liverpool headquarters at Low Hill, ostensibly on Union business but probably for a few pints of beer.
Pte. Harold Heaton
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Jesse Heaton
British Army 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Little Lever, Nr Bolton
Jesse Heaton served with the 19th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was later transferred to the 10th Sherwood Foresters. He was was gassed and shelled on the 30th of August 1918 and sent to Rouen to the 8th General Hospital.
Page 36 of 91
Can you help us to add to our records?
The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them
Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial?
If so please let us know.
Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?"We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember.
Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.
Celebrate your own Family History
Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.
Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.
This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Hosted by:
The Wartime Memories Project Website
is archived for preservation by the British Library
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXV
- All Rights Reserved -We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites, books, magazines or any other forms of media.
