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Name: John HEENAN
Casualty No.: Ranks: Private Initials: J Service No.: 83723
Date of Birth : - Place of Birth : Crawcrook, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Age at Death: 22
Unit: 234th Bn Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Former Unit(s): 2294 Northumberland Fusiliers.
Place Enlisted: Hexham, Northumberland.
Place of Residence: Hexham, Northumberland.
Home Address:
Previous Address:
Civilian Employment:
How Died: Died of wounds
Date of Death: Tuesday 30th April 1918
Place of Death: 18th General Hospital, Cameria, France.
Battle/Campaign: Battles of the Lys, Belgium, 1918.
Locally Commemorated: No
UK Commemorated: Hexham War Memorial, Abbey Grounds, Hexham, Northumberland.
Overseas Commemorated: -
Buried: Étaples Military Cemetery, France.
Decoration and Medals:
Photographs: 2
Service Records: No
Death Notice/Obituary:
Family Details:
Son of Michael and Margaret Heenan of Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Native of Crawcrook, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Nephew of Mr R J Conkleton of Pearson's Terrace, Hexham, Northumberland.
Notes : John served originally with 1st/4th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers (Territorial Force).
Sources Used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers Died in the Great War. The Hexham Herald. The faith and fire within. In memory of the men of Hexham who fell in the Great War by Alan Isaac Grint (Ergo Press, Hexham, Northumberland, 2006).
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