Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Chief Engine Room Articifer, J. E. A. Harding, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (269402 C.E.R.A.2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (269402 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.) naming faint on Victory Medal; Royal Naval Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (269402 C.E.R.A.1 Cl, ‘Sandfly’ Minelaying 1 July-11 Nov 1918) nearly extremely fine (4) £140-180

MSM London Gazette 24 March 1919 ‘For services in minelaying operations between the 1 July and 11 November 1918.’ HMS Sandfly, a coastal destroyer of 250 tons converted for minelaying, served in home waters in 1918.