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Military service
Service number:
29524
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Battalion
Death:
April 22, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Susan Wilhelmina Heath, of "Failand", Paignton, Devon, England, and the late Col. Lewis Forbes Heath (Indian Army). Educated at Wellington College, Berks, England. Corporal Gerald Heath went to Canada at 17 years of age and he served in the Militia before the War.
Additional citations
Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette No. 29200, dated 22nd June, 1915)
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Biography
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Photo of GERALD COUSSMAKER HEATH
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Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal Gerald Coussmaker Heath
Digital gallery of
Corporal Gerald Coussmaker Heath
Digital gallery of
Corporal Gerald Coussmaker Heath
Digital gallery of
Corporal Gerald Coussmaker Heath
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 18 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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