Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Fredrick Horatio Heywood
Ancestor's date of birth: 18/07/1879
Ancestor's date of death: 20/07/1956
Cause of Death: Chronic Bronchitis and Anphysom
Service Number: 26005
Colony or State of enlistment: Not Applicable, Place of Enlistment: Warwick UK - 05/02/1898
Unit: 88th Battery Royal Field Artillery
Rank attained in Boer War: GNR, Date Effective: 05/02/1898
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): SGT, Date Effective: Not available
Murray Page: Not applicable (did not serve with an Australian unit)
Contingent: Not applicable
Ship: Not known
Memorial details: Clermont Western Australia
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange free State and Transvaal clasps
Personal Characteristics: Exemplary.
Reasons to go and fight: Military Character.
Details of service in war: Fought with the Royal Field Artillery, was lucky to survive. Artillery was not best used by the British at this time, attempts were made to get guns en masse in direct fire positions. Gun crews were needlessly exposed to long range small arms fire.
Service and life after the Boer War: Became a Master Cook on the 1 May 1920 with the 1st Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers. Ultimately became a soldier settler at Greenbushes in Western Australia
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: June Wood, Chipping Norton NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Keith Edmond Porter, Halls Head WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Son
