https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/files/original/9cad1eb4fbc97f4b12b32ca5d5bd72be.jpg 9a7f1494dc5ab7d4dbb34164c02da9e1 https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/files/original/b4303efc0111623e816e2d1f5b22e977.jpg d65d8bd6219b7ff4e4550dad69b6a71b https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/files/original/a04dfec2f78341dc52497af92039a72c.jpg aef682eb5a8003df504aea9e5544ebc7 https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/files/original/5ec450b7fbdd2290626a1c345368d394.jpg a0e7f2a9cc74f86728b308e8d0a303c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource VPI Class of 1910 Person An individual. Last Name Heath First and Middle Name John Montgomery VPI Graduating Class In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from? 1910 Rank What military rank did this individual hold? Captain Service Branch What branch of the military did this individual serve in? Army Unit What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on? Company B, 108th Field Signal Battalion, 33rd Division Bibliography Photograph of Officers of 108th Field Signal Battalion, 33rd Division taken on November 22, 1918 at Troyon Sur Meuse, France from the National Archives with Captain John M. Heath standing in second row, first on left (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55234124) <ul> <li> <table class="table table-condensed"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="text-right">National Archives Identifier:</td> <td>55234124</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text-right">Local Identifier:</td> <td>111-SC-37480</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text-right">Creator(s):</td> <td><a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10459659">Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. ca. 1974-5/15/1984</a> (Most Recent) <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10468974">War Department. Army War College. Historical Section. World War I Branch. ca. 1918-ca. 1948</a> (Predecessor) <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10463078">Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Materiel Command. U.S. Army Pictorial Center. (4/1/1964 - 6/30/1970)</a> (Predecessor)</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text-right">From:</td> <td><a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/530707">Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981</a> <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/440">Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </li> <li>Article about John Heath published in The Virginia Tech campus newspaper, 17 April 1919</li> </ul> Battles or Engagements What battles or engagements was this individual involved in during World War One? <ul> <li>Amiens Sector, France: 1 July - 7 August 1918</li> <li>Somme Offensive, France: 8 August - 20 August</li> <li>Verdun Sector, France: 10 September - 25 September 1918</li> <li>Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France: 26 September - 23 October 1918</li> <li>Troyon Sector, France: 26 October - 11 November 1918</li> </ul> Biographical Text Captain John Heath graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1910. Soon thereafter he left his home of Roanoke, Virginia, selling his cadet uniform, books, and other possessions to pay for a set of civilian clothes and a ticket to the western United States where he gained employment with an engineering corps. <div class="text_exposed_show"> When the 108th Field Signal Battalion (later attached to the 33rd Division) was being formed in Chicago John made an application for service and was accepted as a Private even though he had prior military training at VPI. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a Sergeant. When his unit was fighting over Dead Man's Hill near Verdun during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive between September 26 and 28 he braved constant fire to maintain communication lines throughout the battlefield. An action which earned him a promotion to Captain. The next month John Heath was bedridden in an Army hospital with Spanish Flu. It was there he received word that his wife died in the United States of the same disease and that his sister, Mrs. Carrie Heath Hundall, a Red Cross nurse, was a two days ride away from his Army hospital. John left his hospital, procured a horse, and traveled for two days in the rain to meet his sister whom he had not seen in seven years. Under the care of his sister John recovered from the Spanish Flu and returned to his unit for the last few weeks of the war. </div> Hometown Roanoke, Virginia Birth Date 15 May 1887 Death Date 1 July 1967 Place of Death Roanoke, Virginia Spouse(s) Ann Quarnstrom Heath Retired Rank What military rank did this individual hold upon retirement? Colonel Additional Notes <ul> <li>John Heath is buried in Evergreen Burial Park in Roanoke, Virginia (PLOT Section 14, Lot 96N)</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heath, John M.