A post-war M.B.E., O. St. J. group of eight attributed to the Reverend Canon J. F. W. Hardy, Royal Army Chaplain’s Department, Honorary Chaplain to H.M. The Queen and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London 1974-75

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silvered-metal and enamel; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, the last privately inscribed, ‘Rev. J. F. W. Hardy, R.A. Ch. D.’; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., the reverse dated ‘1950’, with three Bars, one G.VI.R., and two E.II.R., cleaned and lacquered, good very fine and better (8) £180-220

Ex A. A. Flatow collection, Spink, 25 November 1998 (Lot 1433), when sold in company with his wife’s 1939-45 awards.

M.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957.

John Francis Wrangham Hardy served as a Chaplain to the Forces (Territorials) 1939-65 and was awarded his Efficiency Decoration in 1950 (London Gazette 21 April of that year refers), Also an Honorary Chaplain to H.M. The Queen 1962-64 (and again from 1967), he was appointed Assistant Chaplain to the Order of St. John in May 1965, in which capacity he was elevated to Sub. Chaplain in July 1980 and to Chaplain in May 1985, and employed as Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London 1974-75. After spending most of his ministry in various Yorkshire livings, Hardy’s final incumbency was as Rector of Green’s Norton, Towcester, Northemptonshire, where he died aged 81 years in July 1993.