The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Hearne

Photograph by "Danielle"

Private George HEARNE, 21482, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of acute bronchitis, 12 Casualty Clearing Station, France, 29th November 1918, age 33.

Born Wendover, Buckinghamshire, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Hearne, of "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

1911 Census - "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire - Daniel Hearne, head, age 49, married, farm labourer, worker, born Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Elizabeth Hearne, wife, age 4, married 27 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Wendover, Buckinghamshire; George Hearne, son, age 26, single, farm labourer, worker, born Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Walter Hearne, son, age 15, single, farm labourer, worker, born Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Alice Hearne, daughter, age 12, school, born Wendover, Buckinghamshire.

Enlisted Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, age 31 years & 3 months, height 5ft 1? inch, weight 125lbs. Resided "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Formerly labourer.

Home 13th November 1915 to 16th July 1916; BEF, 17th July 1916 to 16th September 1916.

13th November 1915 enlisted; 14th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 17th March 1916, mobilized & posted 15th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, Service No.27480; 22nd May 1916 to 27th May 1916, Miselden? Military Hospital, fracture of 3rd metatarsal bone of right foot; 16th July 1916, embarked & posted 14th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 30th August 1916, joined Battalion, In the Field; 10th September 1917 to 21st September 1917, Leave; 19th February 1918, transferred to 12th Entrenching Battalion; 23rd July 1918, posted 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 6th August 1918, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th October 1918, granted leave to UK.

14th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Daniel Hearne, "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden; Mother, Elizabeth Hearne, "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden; Brothers - Alfred Hearne, age 30, sailor, HMS Dolfed?; Walter Hearne, age 23, "Corner Wood," The Lee, Great Missenden; Sisters - Alice Hearne, age 20, Messrs McAvoy?, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; Grandparents, dead.

Buried at Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII. B. 28., France.

NOTE: Not included in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War, but included on CWGC web site.

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