Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) M.B.E.; India General Service Medal clasp North West Frontier 1936 -37 (SGT. S.P. HARDY. S.W.B.); Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45 - together with recipients A.C.C. medal reverse engraved S.P. HARDY 1966
Samuel Peter Hardy was born in Greenwich in 1910. Confusingly, his original Army Form B 108 D confirms his enlistment into the Royal Artillery in 1931 although he was with the South Wales Borderers for most of his early military career. He proceeded to Hong Kong where he was deployed as a Q.M. Clerk and School Instructor before being transferred to the Indian Army Service Corps at their Headquarters in Waziristan in 1935. He earned the Indian General Service Medal clasp NWF 1936-37 whilst thus employed although the medal is named to the S.W.B.
He was commissioned into the RIASC on 11 December 1943 (LG) and served in a number of Supply Depots around India until 1946 when he proceeded to Malaya to command 207 Motor Ambulance Convoy which he took back to India in February 1947. He was promoted to Major before retiring to England in 1948.
At some point he joined the employ of the Ministry of Defence and was awarded for his work as a Higher Executive Officer in the New Years Honours with the M.B.E. (Civil) which appeared in the LG 1 January 1976.
Hardy passed away on 8 January 1987 in Worthing, Sussex
Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including his original commission warrant as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army dated 17 June 1949 and several photos of Hardy and his M.B.E.
