Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second World War O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Colonel N. S. Hart, East Kent Regiment, youngest son of General Sir Reginald Hart, V.C., G.C.B.

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd type; 1914-15 Star (Capt., E. Kent. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Major, The Buffs); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Denmark, Order of the Dannebrog (Christian X) 5th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, minor damage to red enamel on the last, otherwise very fine and better (9)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944.

Order of the Dannebrog (3rd class) London Gazette 1931. The badge contained in the group has been adden to represent this award.

Norman Synnot Hart war born in March 1888 and educated at Hurst Court and Cheltenham College. He joined the Buffs in 1906 and went to South Africa the following year as A.D.C. to his father at Cape Town, until 1911. He served in France with the 1st Battalion and was wounded on 7 June 1915 near Bois Confluent, during the Ypres operations. He returned to France at the end of 1916 but was gassed at Wancourt on 23 April 1917, and invalided home. He returned once again to France, late in 1918, as Acting Brigade Major with the 93rd Unfantry Brigade. He served briefly on attachment with the Royal Air Force in Palestine in the mid 1920’s , and with his regiment during the operations in Burma 1930-32, following which he returned to the UK as D.A.A.G. to Scottish Command. He saw service with the Buffs as a Lieutenant Colonel during the Second World War and was awarded the O.B.E. in 1946.