Veteran Notes/Bio
- Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan.
- AWM Nominal Roll: Recorded as Burnett William Heath but Attestation Papers signed as William Bunnett Heath.Rank: Private ;Unit: 56 Battalion ;DOE:Goulburn 14.03.1916 RTA:23.6.1919.; POB:Bungendore 1882 ;NOK: Father: William Burnett,Bungendore ; 32 1/12;Labourer (living in Bungendore).
- AWM Embarkation Roll:William Burnett Heath.Service No: 2414. All details as per Nomila Roll above. Embarked:30.09.1916.Sydney. HMAT Aeneas.A60.
- Stephenson:Queanbeyan Age 20 .11.1929 when reporting the death of William Heath,the father of William Burnett,indicates that he had three sons who served in the Great War.In this context it is considered that they were: William Burnett,James A. and Joseph William (although no military record can be fround for him-see Entry for "J.H.Heath " below.
- Wounded France 15.05.1917 and again 27.09.1917.
- http://www.chestnut-blue.com/Chestnut%20Blue-o/p1476.htm:William Burnett Heath was born on 22 October 1882 at Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia. He married Frances Naomi Blight, daughter of Charles Blight and Mary Violet Rogers, in 1922 at Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia. William Burnett Heath died on 4 March 1960 at District Hospital, Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia, at age 77. He was buried on 6 March 1960 at Lake Cargelligo Cemetery, Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia, R.C. J 05.FamilyFrances Naomi Blight b. 1904, d. 17 Sep 1972
- Children William Heath b. 1922, d. 1924 Harold Gordon Heath b. 12 Feb 1923, d. 24 Dec 2008.Last updated : September 2014.
- See AWM Photograph P09678.001:Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions noted below at Cyril Smith 2485 and comments by PJH 03.04.15.
- Last updated January 2017.