Captain Edmund Griffith Heath
97th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
25/09/1915
1914 Star
Second son of Deputy Christopher & Mrs Frances
Heath of Mont les Vaux, St Brelades, Jersey.
Husband of Irene Margaret Heath (nee Appleby) of Gloucestershire.
Educated at Victoria College & Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich
Killed in action by machine gun fire, aged 29 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey
Evening Post of Wednesday 6 October 1915
Another Old Victorian makes the Supreme
Sacrifice - Deputy Heath's Son Killed in Action. Another
Old Victorian has made the supreme sacrifice and has
laid down his life for his King and Country. This gallant
officer, Captain Edmund Griffith Heath of the Royal
Field Artillery, was the second son of Deputy and Mrs
Heath of Mont les Vaux, St Aubins. Captain Heath was
born in Nebraska, USA on 7 July 1886 and was thus only
29. He came to Jersey in 1895 and was at Victoria College
from that year until September 1904. He had a most distinguished
career at College, beside being a prominent inter-insular
cricketer and a member of the rifle shooting team, in
1904 he obtained the Kings Classical Medal and First
Prize for mathematics and passed into Woolwich Royal
Military Academy during December. He went to South Africa
for a year and later to India, which he left on the
outbreak of war. He proceeded to the Western Front in
October 1914 and saw much fighting until May 1915 when
he returned home for a spell. He returned to the Front
last August and was Commander of C Battery 97th Brigade
at the time of his death. From the meagre details the
family have received it appears that the Battery had
been in action all day and at the close Captain Heath
and a Subaltern went out to find a new position and
both were killed instantly. To his parents, widow and
other members of the family we beg to tender our sincere
condolences in their bereavement.
