Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group of six: Lieutenant-Colonel N. E. J. Harding, Royal Army Medical Corps, and Nursing Sister D. E. J. Wetton, later Mrs Harding

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal (M.B. Surgeon); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt., M.B. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Norman Ernest Jasper Harding) and Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister D. E. J. Wetton) good very fine or better (7) £500-600

Norman Ernest Jasper Harding was born at Frome, Somerset, on 3 February 1875, and was educated at Merchant Taylor School, Crosby, and Cambridge House, Liverpool; M.B. Ch.B.Ed., 1900. He served in South Africa as a Civil Surgeon 1900-02 and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in September 1902. He served as a Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel with the B.E.F. in France 1914-16 (severely wounded) and in the latter year went to India where he was attached to No. 12 Stationary Hospital. He died of cholera at Bombay on 10 August 1916.