Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Flight Sergeant A. S. Hardwick, Royal Air Force, late Royal Marine Light Infantry

1914 Star, with copy clasp (Ch.17949 Pte., R.M. Brigade); British War and Victory Medals (Ch-17949 Pte., R.M.L.I.); Coronation 1937, unnamed; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (346217 F/Sgt., R.A.F.) mounted for display, fine and better (5) £220-260

Arthur Stanley Hardwick was born in London on 16 October 1895. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Marines at York on 14 May 1912. Served at Dunkirk Chatham Battalion R.M.L.I. until November 1914 then served on the armed boarding steamer H.M.S. Fiona, November 1914-April 1917. Discharged on 6 February 1920 and lived in Durham. Awarded the Coronation Medal 1937 as a Flight Sergeant serving at No.1 Armament Training Camp.

With copied service paper and roll extracts - not entitled to clasp.