Heard, EH
(1892 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
18th August 1892
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1907 - 1910
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
8 The Pavement, Chapel Road, West Norwood
REGIMENT
12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
FINAL RANK:
Lance Corporal
DATE OF DEATH:
2nd October 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
26
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Ypres
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Hooge Crater Cemetery. XIV K 16
Lance Corporal Ernest Henry Heard
Born on August 18th 1892, Ernest was the third of six sons born to dairyman William Heard and his wife, Jane; of whom he was the only one to attend the College. He joined Dulwich in September 1907, just after his fifteenth birthday, and was a pupil for three years, leaving in the summer of 1910. After leaving he went on to train as a teacher, a role in which he was to spend the next several years.
In March 1916 he signed up for military service, at first as a member of The Queen’s Battalion, London Regiment, with whom he went to France for the first time that November. He served several months in the trenches around Ypres, before being invalided home as a result of wounds received at Messines in June 1917. During his recovery period in England he spent time acting as a schoolmaster for young cadets until, in March 1918, he was transferred to the East Surrey Regiment, with whom he returned to the front. He was killed on October 2nd 1918 by a sniper, whilst stationed near Ypres; his widow, Elsie, survived him.