Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. S. Hartnoll, 1/70th Burma Rifles

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. S. Hartnoll.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, suspension on BWM bent, contact marks, very fine (3) £60-£80

Eric Stewart Hartnoll, the eldest son of Sir Henry Sullivan Hartnoll, the Puisne Chief Judge of Lower Burma, was born in Bassein, Burma, on 5 January 1892. Educated at Rugby School and St. John’s College, Oxford, he attested as a Trooper into King Edward’s Horse on 16 June 1913. Commissioned into the 1/70th Burma Rifles, he served during the Great War with his regiment in Egypt and Palestine. Post-War, he returned to his work with the Indian Forest Service as an Assistant Conservation Officer. During the Second World War, at the time of the Japanese invasion in 1942, he was Conservator of Forests, and was evacuated to the United Kingdom, where he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force, serving at home. He died, aged 77, in the New Forest, Hampshire, on 18 December 1970.