Queens South Africa Medal clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 & 1902 (172 CLR. SERJT. C.W. HEARN. HAMPSHIRE REGT.); 1914 Star with 5TH AUG - 22ND NOV 1914 clasp (HON: LT. & Q.M. C.W. HEARN. R.A.M.C); British War Medal (Q.M. & CAPT. C.W. HEARN.); Victory Medal (Q.M. & CAPT. C.W. HEARN.); Volunteer Long Service Medal QV (C. SGT. C.W. HEARN. 3RD V.B. HAMPS:R.) - EK on the V; Coronation Medal 1902; Volunteer Decoration GVR (Capt. C.W. HEARN. R.A.M.C.)
Charles William Hearn was born in Newport, Isle of Wight in 1864. Having seen peacetime service with the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment, he attested for service with them on 17.1.1900 with no. 172 and served in the Anglo Boer War. According to his obituary in the Eastbourne Chronicle of 14 January 1949 he once rode 300 miles through hostile country to deliver dispatches to Lord Kitchener. He was one of the Hants Regiments attendees at the 1902 Coronation of Edward VII.
He was commissioned a Quartermaster and Lieutenant in 1910 and by the time WWI broke out he had joined the RAMC where he served in France from 6 November 1914 with the 26th Field Ambulance. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1915.
Awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal to the Hants Regiment, he went on to earn the Volunteer Decoration in the rank of Captain with the RAMC. He watched his first wife die before his eyes in a car accident in 1925 and, with the outbreak of WWII came out brandishing a revolver to capture a German pilot whose plane had gone down close by only to find that the pilot landed in the sea.
According to the 1939 Register he was a Retired Corporation Official living at 18 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne which is where he passed away in 1949.
Medal is in good condition unless otherwise indicated. Sold with a file of research.
