HERBERT+HENRY+HEATHCOTE

Heathcote, Herbert Henry, Private, 10/900, 1st Battalion, Wellington Regiment Born Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire Enlisted Gisborne, New Zealand Killed in action 7th June 1917 aged 29 Son of Herbert and Elizabeth Heathcote, of Earl Sterndale, Buxton, Derbyshire. Buried in Wulverghem Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, IV, A, 17

Herbert Heathcote was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, 18th July, 1888, and he enlisted on the 18th August 1914 at Gisborne, New Zealand. He was employed as a butcher, and was living at the Te Keraka Hotel, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. He stated his next of kin as his father, Herbert Heathcote, of Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire. Five feet four and a quarter inches tall, he weighed eleven stone two pounds, had a fair complexion, hazel eyes and medium hair, and was an Anglican.


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