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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 540

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£50

Three: Captain H. G. Hearn, Southern Rhodesia Armoured Car Regiment, late South African Police and Southern Rhodesia Artillery

Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Africa Service Medal (SR.599179 H. G. Hearn) good very fine (3) £50-70

Henry George Hearn was born in Queenstown, Cape Province in October 1906. Prior to the Second World War he served in the South African Police. He enlisted into the Southern Rhodesian Forces in June 1940 and was posted to the Corps of Instructors, Rhodesia Regiment with the rank of Sergeant, and thence to the Rhodesia African Rifles at Salisbury. In June 1941 he embarked for East Africa and served in 1/C Battery, Southern Rhodesia Artillery, prior to transferring to the Somaliland Gendarmerie in late 1942 and the Union Defence Force in September 1943, serving as an Acting W.O. Class 2 in 1944. Post-war Hearn was commissioned into the Southern Rhodesia Armoured Car Regiment and commanded ‘C’ Squadron in the rank of Captain at Gwelo until his retirement due to ill-health in 1953. He died the following year. With copied service papers and other research.