HERN, Gordon
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Oxfordshire Constabulary
Regiment/Corps:
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Number:
14241862
Died :
Friday, August 27, 1943
Between:
Friday, August 27, 1943 to Saturday, August 28, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
19
Cemetery/Memorial:
Private Gordon Hern was reported missing 27 August 1943 during early Italian beach reconnaissance, later presumed killed in action. He has no known grave. Son of Charles Thomas Hern and Mildred Cicely Hern, of New Marston, Oxford.
Gordon Hern was an Oxfordshire Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos and was part of the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry, that commenced in 1942. His name is on the Oxfordshire Constabulary WW2 Roll of Honour.
Sources
CWGC.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/47 (1943) and WO417/83 (1944).
War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museum website.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
[Image below] Oxfordshire Constabulary WW2 (lost memorial, which was at their former HQ in New Road, Oxford until 1965) © Thames Valley Police / IWM War Memorial Register (WMR-89990).
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