Source: Killed during German trench raid early morning of May 28, 1917.
Family Search: When Private Thomas Herbert Heathers was born on 2 June 1879, in Listowel, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Henry Heathers, was 34 and his mother, Margaret Moore, was 29. He lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 36, his occupation is listed as machinist. He died on 28 May 1917, in Willerval, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 37.
Born 2 June 1879. Attended Windsor Collegiate Institute.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada · Saturday, June 16, 1917. Page 1.
SERGT. HERBERT HEATHERS
Reported killed in action on May 28, Sergt. Heathers was a prominent all-round athlete of Windsor and popular member of the 21st regt. He went overseas with the 99th Battalion. Almost simultaneous with the arrival of the telegram, tolling his sister, Mrs. Ernest Lane, of Sergt. Heathers’ death, a letter was received from him stating he was well.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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