Notes
All extra details are based on information supplied by the College Archivist (see Additional Information). This included the following biographical details: '(1911) Born 30 October 1892, 3 St James', Hatcham, Surrey; son of Charles Henry Hearn, Commercial Traveller, and Florence Maria Perry. Subject(s): Classics; BA 1914. Tutor(s): E E Sikes. Educ: St Olave's Grammar School. Career: Lieutenant 1916, Acting Captain 1917, then Captain, London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich Battalian). Honours: MC 1917. Died 30 April 1918 (killed in action near Jerusalem).' Another biographical source (see References) writes: 'Robert Hearn, a lawyer, served in Salonika in Greece, then was transferred to Palestine. His friend wrote that ‘his temperament was quiet and gentle, and his thoughts and hobbies had always been far removed from the war’. He was in an attack on the Ottoman line in April 1918. After a counter-attack the British retreated, and it was in this retreat that Hearn was shot in the back. His friends buried him on the foot of the hills where they were fighting, within view of Jerusalem.'