Herbert Allatson Heavingham was born in 1894 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, the second of the three children of Herbert Edward Heavingham (1867-1942) and Christianna Heavingham née Taylor (1867-1943). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1894 in the Plomesgate Registration District, Suffolk. His two siblings were: Ernest William Heavingham (1892-1959) and Freda Mercy Heavingham (b.1900).
In the 1901 census he is shown as aged 7 years and living in Station Road, Saxmundham, Suffolk, with his parents and both siblings. His father was described as a bookstall clerk.
He was shown as a 17-year-old insurance clerk in the 1911 census, living in a seven roomed property at 33 Claremont Road, Highgate, London, with his parents and both siblings together with a male boarder. His father was still listed as a bookstall clerk and his elder brother as an accountant's clerk.
He enlisted as a Rifleman in the 5th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), service number 986 and entered France on 25 January 1915. He was killed in action, aged 21 years, on 27 April 1915 and as he has no known grave he is commemorated on Bay 54, Stone T, of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Menenstraat, 8900 Ieper, Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
He is shown as 'HERBERT HEAVINGHAM' on both the Highgate Camp Memorial in the gate at 107 Swains Lane, London, N6, and on the Highgate United Reform Church war memorial on the Forecourt, Pond Square, London, N6. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website and on the A Street Near You website.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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