{"id":5956,"date":"2025-03-26T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:02:21","slug":"heywood-g-g-pte-1218-1st-honourable-artillery-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/heywood-g-g-pte-1218-1st-honourable-artillery-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Heywood G G Pte 1218 1st Honourable Artillery Company"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heywood G G Pte 1st Honourable Artillery Company<\/p><\/div>\n

PRIVATE G. G. HEYWOOD<\/p>\n

1ST BATTALION HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY<\/p>\n

GERALD GARNETT HEYWOOD was the second son of James Garnett and Alice M. de Quincey Heywood, of Chislehurst. He entered the School in 1906, and left in 1910 for Hertford College,<\/p>\n

Oxford, taking a Second Class in the Modern History School, in June, 1914. He joined the H.A.C. on August 8th, 1914, and was sent to the Front in September.<\/p>\n

While in the front trenches near Ypres he was wounded by shrapnel in the head, on February 15th, 1915. He was sent back to England on March 5th, and died in Derby Infirmary, on March 12th. Age 23.<\/p>\n

His Lieutenant wrote of him:-<\/p>\n

“Gerald has been perfect over here. Always cheerful and willing to do anything, he has borne the hardships as well as the toughest. He has never missed going up to the firing line, and has been the heart and soul of the section under most trying conditions.”<\/p>\n

The Chaplain of the Hospital at Bailleul wrote:-<\/p>\n

“We all feel his loss keenly, because we were filled with admiration for one who showed us a glorious example of the patience and courage of a British soldier and gentleman.”<\/p>\n

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRIVATE G. G. HEYWOOD 1ST BATTALION HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY GERALD GARNETT HEYWOOD was the second son of James Garnett and Alice M. de Quincey Heywood, of Chislehurst. He entered the School in 1906, and left in 1910 for Hertford College, Oxford, taking a Second Class in the Modern History School, in June, 1914. He joined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honourable-artillery-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}