HEEKS William Lowe

  • First Name(s):
    William 
    Lowe 
  • Surname:
    HEEKS
  • Service Number:
    DJX207124
  • Rank:

    Able Seaman

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Navy
  • Ship:
    HMS President III
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    24th September 1940
  • Age At Death:
    28
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, England, Panel 37, Column 3.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Arthur Henry and Emily Esther Heeks, of Cookley, Worcestershire

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HEEKS William Lowe Is Named On These Memorials

Cookley St Peter’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: A.B. Royal Navy

Further Information About HEEKS William Lowe

The birth of William L. Heeks is registered in the December Quarter 1911 under the Kington Registration District (Herefordshire).

Appears on the Royal Navy casualties list for Worcestershire.

HMS President III was a shore establishment. Based initially in Bristol and then in Windsor, it was the headquarters and accounting base for personnel on Defensively Armed Merchant Ships.

A letter from the Reverend W.L. Gutch, St Peter’s, Cookley, Kidderminster dated 5th May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that William L. Heeks, A.B., Royal Navy, be added to the county roll of honour.

William Heeks is remembered on his parent’s gravestone in St Peter’s Churchyard, Cookley.  The inscription reads:
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ARTHUR HENRY HEEKS
WHO DIED 5TH NOV 1967
AGED 85
AND OF HIS ELDEST SON
WILLIAM LOWE HEEKS
ROYAL NAVY
LOST AT SEA
SEPT. 1940 AGED 28
AND OF
EMILY ESTHER HEEKS
(unreadable) SEPT 1969
AGED 88
REUNITED

William Heeks has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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