COASTWATCHERS Hearn, Henry Rexton Cropper

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Hearn ​

• FORENAME

Henry Rexton Cropper ​

• UNIT

New Zealand Coastwatchers ​

• RANK

Corporal ​

• NUMBER

297286 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

15th October 1942 ​

• AGE

21 ​

• GRAVESITE

Bourail Memorial,New Caledonia Panel 1 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of Henry Charles Gordon and Alma Stella Hearn,Hastings,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand​

NZ Post and Telegraph Department​

award Mention in Despatches​

POW September 1942 Kuria,Gilbert Islands​

executed by Japanese Betio,Tarawa,Gilbert Islands​

rank awarded posthumous (8th Brigade Group,Corps of Signals) ​

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