HEASMAN Albert Arthur, Corporal, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 

 

Regimental Number T/204464 Corporal of the 1st Bn of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Son of Mr. W. F. Heasman, of 1, Cadborough Villas, Rye.

Enlisted in Chelsea, Middlesex.   Medals:  British War and Victory medals.  His regimental number indicates that he enlisted from the “Territorial Army”.

Family details recorded:  Albert Arthur Heasman.  Birth Year about 1897. Age in 1911 = 14. (17 at start of war). Birth Place: Glasgow, Scotland.

Father WF Heasman, 47, garage foreman, born London; wife Mary Ann Alexandra Heasman, 48, married 21 years, 5 children all alive, born London; Edith Harriett Heasman, 20; William John Heasman, 19, both born Chatham (Burham?); Vesta Ethel Heasman, 17; Alice Mary Heasman, 15; Albert Arthur Heasman, 14; all children born Glasgow?

Killed in action on 25 October 1918, aged 21 in Flanders, France at the Battle of Selle.  Buried in Saint Souplet Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in plot: I.B.15 (see below).

  October 1918. gside.

Anthony Kimber