Sergeant Air-Gunner, RAF
Born: May 21st 1922
Died: July 30th 1943
Age at Death: 21
Killed, July 30th 1943
John Trehearn was born on 21 May 1922 in Steyning, Sussex, to John Griffiths Trehearn of Durban, South Africa, and his wife Marian (née Williams). At the College he was a member of the Shooting VIII.
After school he joined the RAF, one of many South Africans who served with the RAF during the war, whose number included Pat Pattle, the man widely regarded as the highest scoring air ace in the RAF. During the war Trehearn served with 102 Squadron as a wireless operator and gunner in bombers, flying night raids over Germany. It was during one of these missions that Trehearn was killed on 30 July 1943, while flying in a Handley Page Halifax. Trehearn is buried in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg.
