Cpl. ALFRED GYDE HEAVEN, 703871,MM.102nd Canadian Infantry

AG HEAVENWe are on the trail of a new headstone for a Canadian soldier. Stay tuned for news early in 2012. You would think all CEF soldiers would have been recorded - but we understand that the headstone program started after Cpl Heaven had passed on. As such he is one of the soldiers we have to take care of.

AG HEAVEN ENROLLCpl Alfred Gyde Heaven was from Grand Forks BC. He was born in Oakville, Ontario  and his parents operated a store in Grand Forks. Before WW1 he had seven months introductory experience in the military with the local Independant Company of Rifles. On January 26, 1916 he signed his enrollment papers.

 

 

AH HEAVEN MMOn the Somme with his unit, near Courcellete France,  he won the Military Medal on 11 Nov 1916.

 

AG HEAVEN WAR DIARY ENTRYHis exploits were noted in the unit War Diary

 

 

AG HEAVEN MemorialAfter severe injuries sustained at the Battle of Vimy Ridge he was evacuated to the Berrington Hospital in Shropshire where he passed away from his wounds on 21 April 1917. He was buried in the local cemetery with a memorial provided by his family. Many years after the fact a local volunteer contacted the 102nd website to alert us to the ravages of time on this memorial. Images are shown to the left and are on the Veterans Affairs Virtual War Memorial.

 

AG Heaven MemorialSecond view of Alfred Heaven`s grave.

 

 

AG Heaven NewspaperA local paper story on the state of the grave.

Be sure and visit the 102nd Battalion`s Sister Unit - the 54th Kootenay Battalion

In Memory of LEONARD MUNROE, Lance Corporal, 634116, 21st Bn., Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.), who died on, Saturday, 3rd November 1917. Age 22. Son of Peter Munroe and his wife Ellen McDermid, of Maxville, Ontario, resting at PASSCHENDAELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave Reference, IX. E. 11., all Canada in Khaki pictures courtesy of Leonard Munroe' s descendant Maj Don MacLean, Canadian Armed Forces.

 

BATTLE HONOURS

"SOMME, 1916", "Ancre Heights", "Ancre, 1916", "ARRAS, 1917, 18", "VIMY, 1917", "Hill 70", "YPRES, 1917", "PASSCHENDAELE", "AMIENS", "Scarpe, 1918", "Drocourt-Queant", "HINDENBURG LINE", "CANAL du NORD", "VALENCIENNES", "France and Flanders, 1916-18".

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