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Ernest Hardman
Defence Medal 1939 - 1945
Awarded to Lieutenant Commander Ernest Hardman.
Defence Medal 1939-45 (RNM)
Ernest Hardman served in the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) from 1940 - 1947. He helped, whilst serving with DSTO in MV Theems, in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Le Havre in June 1940. He was hurt during the evacuation, receiving a bomb splinter wound on his right shin bone.
He also worked as a supply officer at Gdansk, Poland, serving there until 1947.
He received the Defence Medal in recognition of the period he served during World War Two.
Certificate of appointment of Hardman as Temporary Lieutenant (RNM)
Scroll presented to Ernest Hardman (RNM)
