PALESTINE/KENYA GROUP OF SEVEN TO WARRANT OFFICER 1-HARDMAN -ROYAL ENGINEERS-SERVED ON H M AUSTRALIA SHIPS DURING THE NUCLEAR TESTING PROGRAMME

1939/45 Star,France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals, GSM (George VI) clasp PALESTINE 1945-48,named to: 14444417 SPR.G.W.G.HARDMAN.R.E.
Africa General Service Medal, clasp: KENYA,named
to: 14444417 SGT.G.W.HARDMAN.R.E., Territorial Efficiency Medal (Elizabeth II) clasp T&A.V.R. named to: 23973672 W O 1 G.W.HARDMAN R E
Medals about good very fine, mounted court style with pin for wearing.
Also comes with his Regular Army Red Book, which shows he enlisted on 18th January 1944, and confirms entitlement to all the medals.He is shown as serving with H.M.SHIPS AUSTRALIA from 19/02/1952 to 14/01/1953 for the Nuclear testing programme and the explosion of the U.K.'s first nuclear bomb on Monte Bello Island on 2nd October 1952.
He was discharged on 1st September, 1960.

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