Edward Healy

a Soldier of the Border Regiment / Remembered with Honour

Edward Healy

Edward Healy
6th Battalion
The Border Regiment

Military
Rank	Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant
Battalion	6th Border Regiment / 3 February 1916 ^[1]
Attached	8th Border Regiment
Theatre(s) of War	Egypt 1916 France and Flanders 1917
Personal
Full Name	Edward Healy
Remembrance
Casualty Type	Commonwealth War Dead
Died	7 June 1917 ^[2]^[3]
Age	35
Cause of Death	Killed in action
Burial Type	Memorial
Reference Number	Panel 35
Resting Place	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Coordinates	Latitude: 50.85202 / Longitude: 2.89108
Media
Biography
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Images
2nd Lieutenant Healy 2nd Lieutenant Healy in the trenches 2nd Lt. Healy and Lt. McCreadie (Doctor) Officers Allured, Dedman, May and Healy 2nd Lieutenant Healy (middle row, 3rd from right), Sidi Bashr, Egypt, 1916
References and notes
See notes and definitions for soldier remembrance pages for further information. ↑ Healy joins the 6th Battalion Border Regiment at Sidi Bishr, Egypt on 3 February, 1916. The war diary entry for that day reads: "Arranging camp. 184 other ranks marched in. Officers 2 Lt. A Fulton from hospital. Lt. Davies, 2 Lt. Healy & Allured attached from Manchester Regt. 2 Lt. McCrae Royal Warwickshire Regt. also attached." ↑ Edward Healy. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Accessed 14 May, 2020. ↑ At the time of his death on 7 June 1917, at the Battle of Messines, Healy is attached to 8th Border Regiment. The Battalion war diary entry for that day reads: "Warm. Attack on MESSINES RIDGE began at 3.10am. Battalion left Assembly trench (Newcastle) at 7am to take part. C on left, D on right, A & B in support respectively. Provisional task – Consolidation of Black Line – just to East of MESSINES - WYTSCHAETE Road, but had to help clear several pockets of enemy left by advanced troops, reached Black Line about 8.30am & began consolidation. Also dug two CTs from October support trench & one on right & one on left of our own position. 2nd Lancs wired the front at night. Enemy shelled very heavily at intervals all the day & night. 2/Lt E. Healey (Sic) killed during advance & 2 Lt Bott & 2 Lt Johnson wounded. Sent 4 platoons forward to support XI Cheshires on [OP?] line."

[1] Healy joins the 6th Battalion Border Regiment at Sidi Bishr, Egypt on 3 February, 1916. The war diary entry for that day reads: "Arranging camp. 184 other ranks marched in. Officers 2 Lt. A Fulton from hospital. Lt. Davies, 2 Lt. Healy & Allured attached from Manchester Regt. 2 Lt. McCrae Royal Warwickshire Regt. also attached."

[2] Edward Healy. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Accessed 14 May, 2020.

[3] At the time of his death on 7 June 1917, at the Battle of Messines, Healy is attached to 8th Border Regiment. The Battalion war diary entry for that day reads: "Warm. Attack on MESSINES RIDGE began at 3.10am. Battalion left Assembly trench (Newcastle) at 7am to take part. C on left, D on right, A & B in support respectively. Provisional task – Consolidation of Black Line – just to East of MESSINES - WYTSCHAETE Road, but had to help clear several pockets of enemy left by advanced troops, reached Black Line about 8.30am & began consolidation. Also dug two CTs from October support trench & one on right & one on left of our own position. 2nd Lancs wired the front at night. Enemy shelled very heavily at intervals all the day & night. 2/Lt E. Healey (Sic) killed during advance & 2 Lt Bott & 2 Lt Johnson wounded. Sent 4 platoons forward to support XI Cheshires on [OP?] line."

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