Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Commander C. A. Hardie, St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps

Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with six ‘St. Andrew’s cross’ Additional Award Bars (C. Hardie) edge prepared prior to naming; St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps Jubilee Medal 1954, unnamed as issued; together with two St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps lapel badges, good very fine (3) £60-£80

Charles A. Hardie enlisted in the Portobello Town Section, No. 29 Company, St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps in 1940, and was awarded his Voluntary Medical Services Medal on 24 September 1957. He was awarded Additional Award Bars at five yearly intervals thereafter, his sixth bar being awarded in 1987, by which time he held the rank of Commander. His final year’s attendance was in 1990.