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Name: HEATH, 'Jacko' (Wing Commander)
First Date: 1928
Profession: Security officer for the Prince of Wales in Nairobi and London. Lover of Beryl Markham during 1930s?
Area: Mombasa
Married: Sarah Elizabeth Ann 'Sally' Billyard-Leake b. 1925, dau. of Charles Robert Billyard-Leake
Book Reference: Markham, Mischief
General Information:
Markham - Wing Commander 'Jacko' Heath his bold black eye patch adding to his saurian, hermit image, lived with his memories on the Kenya Coast.
Mischief - at dinner at Muthaiga with Broughton etc on the night of Erroll's murder
Old Africa 10 Dec 2023-Jan 2024 Jacko Heath lived at Mtwapa. Daily went down to the beach dressed in a huge pair of shorts, sat on a deckchair and an African boy swam out with a lure. Heath would reel the line in, hoping for a fish. The boy swam out repeatedly. His wife got fish from pools at low tide, put them in jars of seawater, and drew and painted them onto tiles which she fitted to walls around the house.
?In 1939 RAF List there is John Benjamin Heath, Wing Commander, seconded from the Royal Navy.