JOHN HENRY HEATH
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury – 1917
Born: 1896, Ipswich.
Died: 23rd September 1917; age 21; Died of Wounds – No. 12 Casualty Clearing Station.
Residence: 2, Perth Street, Ipswich.
Employed: Messrs. Burton, Son & Sanders, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Driver; Service Number: 916065.
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, (T.F.), 55th Divisional Ammunition Column.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
V.E.20.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
CENSUS
1901 2, Perth Street, Ipswich.
John was 5 years old and living with his parents, siblings & maternal grandmother.
Charles John Heath, 37, a Painter, born Ipswich.
Sarah Anne Fuller, 34, born Ipswich.
Charles William Heath, 10, born Ipswich.
George Frederick Heath, 7, born Ipswich.
Emma Annie E. Heath, 2, born Ipswich.
Elizabeth Fuller, 78, a retired Charwomen, born Ipswich.
1911 2, Perth Street, Ipswich.
John was 15 years old, a Labourer – Iron Foundry. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Charles, 47, a Painter’s Labourer.
Anne, 43.
Charles, 20, a Labourer – Iron Foundry.
George, 18, a Labourer – Iron Foundry.
Emma, 11.
Alfred Alick Heath, 8, born Ipswich.
Walter Stanley Heath, 6, born Ipswich.
Violet Edith Heath, 4, born Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Annie Heath – mother.
John is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich.
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