Private GORDON ALBERT JAMES HEATON (photo added)

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Rank Private
Forenames GORDON ALBERT JAMES
Surname HEATON (photo added)
Initials G A J
Place of Birth Unknown
Date of Birth Unknown
Date of Death Sunday, 27 August 1944
Age 21
Nationality British
Residence or Entered Service From BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
Service Number 4042611
Force British Army
Service/Corps/Regiment Worcestershire Regiment
Unit / Ship / Battalion / Squadron 1 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (43rd Wessex Infantry Division)
Military Honours and Awards
Place of Burial/Commemoration VERNON (VERNONNET) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Roll of honour
Grave/Memorial Location Grave 14.
Previous Place(s) of Burial Unknown
Epitaph
Family Details SON OF GEORGE GORDON AND FLORENCE BEATRICE HEATON, OF HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM.

Additional Information

 

 

An appeal for information about Private Gordon Albert James Heaton.
After a copy of his last will is found in a National Express lost property office during a refurbishment.

 

 

 

 

 

Letter for Mrs J B Heaton
Mother of Private Gordon Albert James Heaton.

 

 

 

 

 

Letter and Private Gordon Albert James Heaton's will.

 

 

 

 

References
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15641130
2. http://www.midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk/
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9490972/Lost-telegram-revealing-soldiers-death-delivered-after-67-years.html
4. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191531/Young-war-heros-testament-delivered-67-years-lost-bus.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

Acknowledgements and Credits
Source of original data: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Headstone photograph: Carl Shilleto
Cross marker photograph:  
Individual photograph: various souces: Daily Mail, In Memory by Pierre Vandervelden, Midlands Business News, The Telegraph.
Additional photographs provided by: various sources: Daily Mail, Shaun Fellows/Shine Pixs Ltd, Mikey Jones/Caters News Agency, Midlands Business News.
Additional information provided by: various sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/, Daily Mail, Midlands Business News, The Telegraph.

 

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