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Rfmn. John Herron
British Army A Coy, 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Lisburn
My grandfather, Johnny Herron served with A Company, 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles at the Somme. He was buried alive by shell fire just before H hour, but was recovered from the trench collapse by a comrade called Hugh Stewart. He was taken to the Regimental Aid Post and treated. He returned to the line and took part in the storming of the Schwaben Redoubt. The next morning they were mustered, only 100 or so remained fit to continue. My grandfather was asked by the Adjutant John Deverell, (I served with his grandson,) which Battalion he would like to serve with and he chose the 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, The reason for this was this was the Battalion that had taught the ropes and he knew all the lads.
There he served with Lt JRR Tolkien. He also fought at Passchendaele and the storming of Messines ridge. He was a CSM by that time. My grandfather survived the war but was badly shell shocked.
Pte. Michael Herron
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
(d.16th May 1915)
Michael Herron enlisted in Strabane on St. Stephen's Day 1911. He gave a false age as he was only 15. It seems he followed his older brother James Herron (who survived the war). When war broke out, he served with the 2nd Inniskillings & arrived in France with a draft of men on 22nd September 1915. He was listed as missing presumed dead on 16th May 1915 at the battle of Festubert. He was 19 years of age. He has no known grave & is commemorated at Le Touret memorial.
Dvr. Allan Herschell
British Army 2nd Brigade, 53rd Battery. Royal Field Artillery
from:Montrose
(d.25th Oct 1918)
My great-grandfather Allan Herschell was killed in action in France. I would be interested to find out what battle the 2nd Brigade were involved in around this time
Lt. Hamilton "Flossie" Hervey
Royal Flying Corps
Lt Hervey was shot down in April 1917 and became a prisoner at Freiburg, Baden and Clausthal POW camps.
Pte. J. Herwood
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Southmoor
J Herwood was discharged in 1919
Spr. Tom Oldman Heseltine
British Army 228th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Doncaster
Pte. John Heslin
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.17th Dec 1917)
John Heslin married Mary Allan in 1914. He was previously a cooper at the Youngers brewery in Edinburgh, he enlisted with the Army and had an illicit affair with another woman which produced a son. John was sent to the Somme with no knowledge of the pregnancy and his son (my Grandfather) was born in 1915. In 1917, John was killed in action. His memorial is in Gouzeaucourt Cemetary in Nord, France.
Pte. H. Heslip
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Heslop
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lt F Heslop
British Army 1st Btn West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
from:18, Flag Terrace, Gateshead-on-Tyne
(d.26th Apr 1918)
Heslop, F. Second Lieutenant, Killed in action on 26th April 1918. Aged 23 years.
Buried in White House Cemetery, St.Jean-Les-Ypres,Ieper,West-Vlaanderen, in grave IV. A. 15.
Husband of Anne Heslop, of 18, Flag Terrace, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Second Lieutenant Heslop is shown within 19th Btn N.F. records and must have been a member of the battalion before joining the 1st Btn, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own).
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. John Heslop
British Army 20th Btn Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th DLI
Pte. Lawrence Heslop
British Army 20th Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 20th, 5th and 18th DLI
Pte. Thomas Heslop
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Robert Heslop
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Cpl. Thomas Frederick Hesp
British Army 3rd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:91 West Worsley, West Salford
Fred Hesp served with the 3rd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers.
Pte. J. Hession
British Army Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
from:Loughrea
Private Hession was the husband of Mrs Hession of Cosmona, Loughrea.
He died on 15th May 1920 and is buried In the North-East part of the Loughrea (Garrybreda) Cemetery, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Capt. Jacob Andrew Norman Hessler
British Army 5th Battalion. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hartlepool, Co Durham
(d.27th May 1918)
Jacob Andrew Norman Hessler was one of two brothers, both were Captains in the 5th Battalion D.L.I. His brother was called Jacob Kruse Muller Hessler (Jackie) he was K.I.A. on 23/3/18. I am having trouble finding any records other than medal rolls. Their father was the Vice Consul to Norway at West Hartlepool.
Capt. Jacob Andrew Norman Hessler
British Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:West Hartlepool
(d.27th May 1918)
Both Norman Hessler and his younger brother Jackie were killed in 1918 and have no known graves. I have done considerable research into Norman's death in the Battle of the Aisne in May 1918. He was Company Commander of D Coy which was in reserve based on Centre d'Evreux nr Pontavert. They were ordered to proceed to the intermediate line but met the Germans in overwhelming on the way. They came into contact with the enemy in either Boyeau [communication trench] or Boyeau St Pol and Jackie was killed while covering his company's withdrawal with a Lewis gun [letters from Lt CD Marley and LtCol BS Robinson to Jackie's's widow].
In the British military cemetery nr La Ville aux Bois les Pontavert is the grave of an unknown DLI TA captain killed in the Battle of the Aisne. Four were killed and where the body was found was not far from where my uncle Norman was killed, however I came to the conclusion that it must be the body of one of the two 6 DLI captains killed in that action. 6 DLI was on the right of the 151 bde front
Rflmn. Charles William James Hester
British Army 1/17th Battalion London Regiment
from:Fulham, Lonodn
Charles Hester served with the 17th Battalion, London Regiment.
Pte. Archibald Hetherington
British Army 19th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Allendale
(d.19th June 1915)
It is believed that Archbald Hetherington died in a training accident on 19th June 1915, when he was aged 23 years. He is buried in the south-west part of Masham (St. Mary) Churchyard, St Mary's Church, Centre of Masham, Yorkshire. Archibald was the son of Peter (a cabinet maker and painter) and Jane Hetherington, of Cross Keys House, Allendale, Northumberland and was the husband of Emily Hetherington of Northumberland.
He joined the 19th Northumberland Fusiliers which formed at Newcastle in November 1914. After training throughout 1915, the battalion moved to France in late January 1916, but Archie was not among them. He died in June 1915, perhaps in a training accident, and is buried at Masham in Yorkshire.
Archie's brother Cecil did return to Allendale, after surviving the sinking of the SS Jacona a mere two months after the death of his brother. Cecil struggled to a drifting lifeboat and, after reaching it, managed to return to rescue the other nine survivors floundering in the water. Among other awards, he was presented with the Stanhope Medal for bravery; the Stanhope is all the more prestigious because only one medal is struck each year. (From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.)
Pte. G. N. Hetherington
Army 15th Btn Durham Light Infantry
Pte. George Hetherington
British Army 2nd Btn. Border Regiment
from:Holme, Eden, Carlisle
(d.30th Nov 1916)
Goerge Hetherington was killed in action in France in 1916.
Ord.Sea. John Tench Hetherington
Mercantile Marine SS Van Stirum
from:Chatham
(d.25th Dec 1915)
John Tench Hetherington Ordinary Seaman, served on the SS Van Stirum (London) with the Mercantile Marine. Born Jarrow 1898. Son of John William (Serjeant Instructor in the Royal Engineers) and Mary Hetherington (nee Murphy) of 3 Ashtree Road Chatham Kent. On the 1911 census John Tench Hetherington age 12 at School is with his parents John William Hetherington (Serjeant Major Territorial Instructor in the Royal Engineers) and Mary Hetherington and family at the Drill Hall Cottage, Smethwick .
Aged 17 John died after his ship was torpedoed on 25th December 1915. From research, John must have been the Seaman who was with the Boatswain when the torpedo struck, as there were only two fatalities. He is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
S/Sgt. John Wesley Hetherington
Australian Imperial Force 2nd Btn.
from:Australia
John Wesley Hetherington was born in Northumberland, England on 22nd November 1878 to Thomas and Margaret Hetherington. He worked as an engineer tool maker in Sydney, Australia before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 17th September 1914 as an armourer corporal. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade and left Australia for Egypt on 18th October 1914 aboard HMAT Suffolk.
After training in Egypt, the battalion took part in the ANZAC landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Hetherington was wounded during the landing and spent four months in hospital in Malta. He re-joined the 2nd Battalion at Gallipoli, where they remained until the evacuation in December 1915.
After returning to Egypt from Gallipoli in December 1915, the 2nd Battalion arrived at Marseilles, France on 28th March 1916. Since the Gallipoli landing the previous year, Hetherington had received numerous promotions and was an armourer sergeant by March 1916. From July through to September 1916, the 2nd Battalion was engaged in its first major battle on the Western Front, the battle of Pozières. Following the end of this battle, Hetherington went to England on leave before re-joining the battalion in France. From February to May 1917, Hetherington attended the Armoury School of Instruction and was promoted to the rank of regimental quartermaster sergeant(warrant officer class 2) on 25th May 1917. Throughout 1917 and 1918, the 2nd Battalion took part in operations against the German Army in the Somme Valley in France and Belgium . Hetherington returned to Australia aboard HT Devon in October 1918. Hetherington was discharged in January 1919.
John Wesley Hetherington enlisted again during the Second World War on 10th June 1940. He reduced his age by stating his year of birth was 1888. He was discharged on 2nd February 1945 with the rank of staff sergeant.
John Hetherington died in Sydney in 1978.
Cpl. Richard Hetherington
British Army 1st Btn. C Coy. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Mountrath, Queens Co. Ireland
(d.18th Sep 1914)
My grand uncle, Richard Hetherington, was born 1st May 1886 to Patrick and Anne(nee Farrell) Hetherington in a small village in the Irish Midlands called Mountrath. Which at that time was known as Queens County and is now County Laois. He joined the army before WW1 and was on leave when he was called back to duty. He was 28 years when he died 18th September 1914. He is remembered with other fallen soldiers who have no graves on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Pte. Robert Hetherington
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
L/Cpl. Samuel William Heward
British Army 8th Btn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:London
(d.9th Apr 1916)
Samuel Heward enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment and was subsequently transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was my great Uncle and, as a child, I remember always going to the remembrance parade at Hampstead Parish Church where Samuel is recorded on the war memorial. He is also remembered on the war memorial at Loos in France where he was killed on 9th of April 1916 and where I visited some time ago.
Samuel left behind his wife Elizabeth and five children, Elizabeth, Queenie, Winifred, Ivy and Samuel who was just 10 days old when his father was killed.
Pte. William Hewart
British Army 19th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Salford
(d.24th Feb 1917)
It's not long since I discovered my great uncle William Hewar was killed in WW1. This is just the beginning of a long journey for me and, I hope to return to this page and reveal the journey that he made in his short life.
Pte. James Hewett
British Army 13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:North Shields
(d.30th October 1915)
Rflmn. William Walter Hewett
British Army 18th (London Irish Rifles) Btn., C Coy. London Regiment
from:Sandwich, Kent
(d.5th April 1918)
William Hewett served with C Company, London Irish Rifles.
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