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Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Newton HEALE
121st Pioneers Indian Army attached to the 14th (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Pioneers) Date of birth: 28th April 1870 Date of death: 12th June 1916 Died aged 46 Buried at Le Treport Military Cemetery Plot 2 Row O Grave 16
Ernest Newton Heale was born at Addington Rectory, near West Malling in Kent on the 28th of April 1870 the eldest son of the Reverend James Newton Heale, Vicar of Harbledown in Kent, and Isabella Margaret (nee Wingfield-Stratford) Heale later of 15 Arlington Park Road, Twickenham in Middlesex and of the Royal Military College Sandhurst. He was christened at Addington on the 12th of June 1870. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in School House from January 1884 to July 1888. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kent Artillery (Eastern Division) on the 5th of October 1889 and was commissioned in the regular army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in on the 9th of April 1892. He embarked for overseas service with the 2nd Battalion on the 16th of December 1892 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 2nd of September 1894. He was seconded to the Indian Staff Corps on the 22nd of September 1894, although his promotion to Lieutenant was cancelled when his secondment to the Indian Army became permanent on the 14th of August 1896. He was promoted to Captain on the 10th of July 1901, to Double Company Commander on the 1st of December 1905 and to Major in the 121st Pioneers, Indian Army on the 9th of April 1910. He saw service in Somaliland in 1903 and 1904 and won the medal with clasp. On the 18th of October 1915 he joined the 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in the field at Armentieres and assumed command of the battalion from Colonel F.B. Morley the following day. He was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, on his appointment, on the 19th of October 1915. He was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on the 14th of January 1916. He died of cellucitis of the left leg at 11.30am on the morning of the 12th of June 1916 at No.3 General Hospital, Le Treport. He was mentioned in despatches. His brother, Lieutenant George Reginald Charles Heale MC 10th (Service) Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, was killed in action on the 3rd of May 1917. He is commemorated on the war memorial at All Soul's Church, St Margaret's Church, Twickenham and on the memorial at St Mary the Virgin Church at Nettlestead, Wateringbury in Kent.

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