Heathcote C
Cyril HEATHCOTE
Service Record
Regimental number-6766
Religion-Presbyterian
Occupation-Carpenter
Address-Culcairn, New South Wales
Marital status-Single
Age at embarkation-18
Next of kin-Father, T Heathcote, Culcairn, New South Wales
Enlistment date-19 July 1916
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll-19 July 1916
Rank on enlistment-Private
Unit name-8th Battalion, 22nd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number-23/25/5
Embarkation details-Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT SS Port Napieron 17 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll-Private
Unit from Nominal Roll-23rd Battalion
Fate-Killed in Action 8 October 1917
Place of burial-No known grave
Commemoration details-The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial99
Family/military connections-
Brothers: 734 Corporal Albert Wallace HEATHCOTE, 3rd Bn, killed in action, 6765 Pte Bruce HEATHCOTE, 23rd Bn, returned to Australia, 8 April 1918; 553 Pte Thomas HEATHCOTE, 11th Bn, returned to Australia, 3 February 1915.
Other details-
War service: Western Front
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