Wednesday, August 28, 2019

I recently came across this photograph of Neville Heath taken during his time
in the Royal Army Service Corps when he held the rank of Second Lieutenant, presumably during his time based at H4 in the Middle East. To my knowledge this is the only picture taken of Heath during his war time service still in existence. All other extant photographs from this period were destroyed by his wife Elizabeth Pitt-Rivers. Heath's time in the RASC came to an abrupt end due to his use of a duplicate army paybook, in effect allowing him to draw two lots of pay and the writing of dud cheques which inevitably bounced! 

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