Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Lieutenant A. E. Hardy, Essex Regiment, late Norfolk Regiment
1914-15 Star (13181 Pte. A. E. Hardy. Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. E. Hardy. Norf. R.); Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, with ‘Long Service 1942’ bar (Arthur E. Hardy.) mounted as worn, good very fine

Three: Private R. W. Graystone, Norfolk Regiment
1914-15 Star (4322 Pte. R. W. Graystone. Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4322 Pte. R. W. Graystone. Norf. R.) BWM officially re-impressed, otherwise very fine (7) £200-£240

Arthur Ernest Hardy was born in Thorpe Hamlet, near Norwich, Norfolk, on 26 April 1882 and attested for the Norfolk Regiment at Norwich on 7 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion as a Private during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 July 1915, was advanced acting Sergeant on 7 January 1917, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Essex Regiment on 27 November 1917. A fire insurance clerk in civilian life, he served in the Special Constabulary, and died in Norwich on 16 June 1973.

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Robert William Graystone was born in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, in 1897, and attested underage for the 4th (Territorial) Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in 1914. He served with the Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 9 August 1915, and subsequently in Palestine, and was disembodied on 29 March 1919. He died in December 1973.

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