Orders, Decorations and Medals

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

Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, this last officially inscribed, ‘SR. 599179 H. G. Hearn’, extremely fine (3) £40-60

Henry George Hearn was born in Queenstown, Cape Province in October 1906, and served for several years in the South African Police prior to the 1939-45 War. Enlisting in the Southern Rhodesia Forces in June 1940, he was posted to the Corps of Instructors in the rank of Sergeant, and thence to the Rhodesia African Rifles at Salisbury. Subsequently embarked for East Africa in June 1941, he appears to have served in 1/C Battery, Southern Rhodesia Artillery, prior to transferring to the Somaliland Gendarmerie in late 1942, and to the Union Defence Force (U.D.F.) in September 1943. Post-war Hearn was commissioned in the Southern Rhodesia Armoured Car Regiment, and commanded ‘C’ Squadron in the rank of Captain at Gwelo until his retirement on the grounds of ill-health in 1953. A noted athlete who had represented the S.A. Police and Mashonaland Province at rugby in his youth, Hearn died in January 1954; sold with copied service record which confirms his entitlement to the above described awards.