Christopher Heugh

A Sergeant with C Battery 156th Brigade, Christopher died on 3rd of May 1917 at the age of 30. 

Christopher was born at Rotherhithe, London, in 1885, a son of John Jameson and Eliza Jane Heugh. In 1891 his family lived at 37 Abbeyfield Road, Rotherhithe, and this was still their home in 1901 when Christopher worked as a bank page. By 1911 his father had died and the family were living at 202 Rotherhithe New Road and Christopher was a bank messenger. 

On 24 August 1912 Christopher married Hettie Caroline Young, of Hemsby, Norfolk, at All Saints; Church, Rotherhithe. Christopher was a bank messenger living at 202 Rotherhithe New Road, and Hettie lived at Hemsby. In 1915 their home was at 15 Grove Hill Road, Southwark. In 1920 Hettie married Edgar Bobbins and later lived at 7 Dene Road, Lowestoft.

Christopher volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Camberwell. He joined the Royal Field Artillery, service number L/6271. Christopher was already a sergeant when he arrived in France on 11 December 1915 and he served with C Battery 156 Brigade. 

On 3 May 1917 156 Brigade were laying down fire in support of the advance on the Arleux-Bullecourt line. As zero hour was before light all communication between the brigade and the advancing troops was lost. Later in the day they fired in order to tave off German counter-attacks on Scabbard Trench and their grouping behind Keeling Copse. 

No details of exactly what happened to Christopher are known other than that he was killed in action on 3 May.

During May 1917 the brigade’s casualties were two officers killed, and 8 men killed and 22 wounded.