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134221 Royal Garrison Artillery
Harry Heard was born in Sudbury in 1883, the second son of nine children of Frederick Henry (Harry) and Susan Heard. His father was employed as a bricklayer and the family lived at 57 North Street before later moving to New Street. By 1901 Harry was a milkman living in Hackney, London. He married Alice Jane Mott in 1907 and they had two daughters Gladys Ellen and Doris May.
Harry was a widower when he enlisted in London on 4 November 1916. His two girls were put in the care of his mother-in-law Mrs Mott living in Sudbury. Harry was injured in a gas attack on 8 April 1918 and admitted to the military hospital at Etaples. He was transferred back to England to Croydon Hospital and discharged from the army on 27 January 1919.
Harry returned home and lived at 9 Walnuttree Lane with his mother-in-law and his two daughters but died in April 1920 in the Isolation Hospital in Great Baddow, Essex probably from his injuries sustained in the war.
He was buried on 16 April 1920 in Sudbury Cemetery (Plot PP 85). A Cross of Remembrance is laid by his grave every year at Remembrancetide.
Harry was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
It was believed on initial research to be 47692 Gunner Harry Heard Royal Field Artillery, who had been born in Sudbury in 1884, son of John and Caroline Heard, who lived in Church Street. Harry moved away and enlisted in Greenwich. He died on 7 June 1917 and lies buried in Brandhoek Military Cemetery. A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in 2009.
Further research confirmed that this was not Harry Heard in the original Roll of Honour, but Harry is now remembered along with other Sudbury men who have been traced and who are not on the Sudbury War Memorial.
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