Name
Horace Leslie Heaver
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7369
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
M. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Town Memorial, Christchurch Memorial, Radlett
Pre War
Horace Heaver was born in 1895 in Kilburn, London, to George Albert and Amy Heaver. and baptised at St Augustine, Paddington 31 July 1895. They were living at 31 Kingsgate Road at the time.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Wilberforce Road, Hendon, Middlesex where his father was working as a Bus Driver. By 1911 they had moved to Watling Street, Radlett, Herts and Horace was working as an Errand Boy and his father was a Newsagent and Confectioner.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted in St Albans and joined the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, serving in France from 21 April 1915.
He was killed in action on 9 May 1915 on the first day of the major assault on the Aubers Ridge. The artillery bombardments that opened the attack made little impression on the fortified German positions and, as a result, their machine-gunners were able to cut down many of the attacking troops as soon as they left their trenches. Despite some initial success, the British Expeditionary Force failed to achieve its objectives and over 10,000 officers and men were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
Horace is buried in Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 7s 0d. Pension cards exist but give no indication of any pension amount received.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
