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I.R. HEAYS.
2. (centre aligned)
Hampshire, and with this squadron he took part in 3 operational flights, being anti-submarine patrols in the Bay of Biscay.

F/Sgt. Heays was a member of the crew of a Liberator aircraft engaged in an anti-submarine patrol over the Bay of Biscay on the 21st September 1943. The aircraft was attacked by enemy fighters, and F/Sgt. Heays received wounds from which he died during the same day in Hospital in England. He was buried in the Haycombe Cemetery, Bath.

5/15/1927 AS2
228 hrs. as W/Opr. A/G.

Mr. R.J. Heays (F) (right aligned)
Te Rangi, (right aligned)
Tutira, HAWKES BAY. (right aligned & town underlined)