Name
William James (poss James William) Heath
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
183719
Royal Engineers
80th Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
II. F. 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Little Hadham Village Memorial, St Cecilia's Church Roll of Honour, Little Hadham, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Hadham Ford
Pre War
Born in 1884 in Bishop’s Stortford, son of James and Sophia Heath, of Sawbridgeworth, Herts. (later address?)
In 1911, he was living in Fulham and was described as a ‘Jobbing Gardener’ and in 1914 he married Gertrude Kate Hardy of The Ford, Little Hadham, Bishop’s Stortford.
Wartime Service
James was probably conscripted into the Army in 1916. He served with the 80th Field Company, Royal Engineers. This was a part of the 18th Division operating in a supporting role, and in July 1917 was in Flanders preparing for the coming Passchendaele offensive.
James’ death date is given as 23 July 1917 and as he is buried Mendinghem Military Cemetery, close to the site of a major field hospital this suggests illness or earlier wounding. He was aged 33.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
