Norman Ivor HEARD

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HEARD, Norman Ivor

Service Number:	7015
Enlisted:	16 October 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Noradjuha, Victoria, Australia, 1895
Home Town:	Elsternwick, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling:	Hassetts Business College, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Post Office Official
Died:	Died of wounds, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery:	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (Plot XX, Row F), Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Elsternwick Great War Roll of Honor, Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1, Postmaster General's Department Victoria 2

World War 1 Service

16 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7015, 6th Infantry Battalion
23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 7015, 6th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 7015, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Norman Heard was the youngest of 9 children of John Samuel Heard and Hannah Martha Heard (Graham). He attended Stawell School & Hassetts Business College and was working as a Post Office Official (Letter Carrier) when he enlisted in late 1916.

He was wounded in action 21 September 1917, and died of gunshot wounds to the chest, in the No. 2 Canadian CCS, 13 days later.

His older brother, Albert Jack Heard was killed at Gallipoli on 17th September, 1915.

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