The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant A G Heath

Lieutenant Arthur George HEATH, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 8th October 1915, his 28th birthday.

Born 8th October 1887, Hackney, London, son of George Henry Heath & Eliza Mary, (nee Coster), Sunnyside, Hartley Wintrey, Hampshire.

Educated Grocers' Company's School, Hackney Downs before going to New College, Oxford in 1905. By this time his family were living in Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent.

Arthur George Heath, applied for a commission just three days after the declaration of war. Shortly after his battalion landed at Boulogne on 1st June 1915 Arthur was sick with blood poisoning and then in July he received a scalp wound from a shell splinter.

10th November 1915, Probate - HEATH Arthur George, of New College, Oxford, 1st Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 8th October 1915, in France. Administration London to George Henry Heath, assistant secretary, Estate Duty Office. Effects £994 3s 8d.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France, / St Albans Church, Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire / New College, Oxford, Oxfordshire / Gypsy Road School, Norwood, London / Grocers Company School, Hackney Downs, Greater London / Stafford Town War Memorial & Bromley Methodist Church War Memorial. / Bromley War Memorial. / Sevenoaks War Memorial.

Letters of Arthur George Heath

London Gazette 19th August 1915.

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). 6th Battalion.

The under mentioned temporary Second Lieutenants to be temporary Lieutenants, supernumerary to establishment. Dated 18th June, 1915. Arthur G. Heath.

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