Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

17/04/1916

Date of Discharge

21/09/1919

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

25/07/1895

Place of Birth

Lang Lang, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

John Heward (father), Bulla State School, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

4 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Heward entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 12 March 1914 and graduated on 3 April 1916. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant with the 31st Battery, 8th Field Artillery Brigade and arrived in England in July 1916. He served with his battery in France between February and June 1917 until transferring to the 38th Infantry Battalion. During the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium in October 1917 he was shot in the thigh and hand and was sent to England for treatment. After recovering he was transferred to the 4th Field Artillery Brigade but his war effectively ended in May 1918 when he was diagnosed with typhoid. He served in World War 2 as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Torres Strait Coastal Artillery. Heward died in Sydney in 1978.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
AWM collections record : 119165
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Sydney Morning Herald - 8 September 1978