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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 13

Family Group:
Three: Private F. Gardiner, Norfolk Regiment
1914-15 Star (1566 Pte. F. Gardiner. Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1566 Pte. F. Gardiner. Norf. R.), good very fine, together with the recipient's cap Badge and Territorial Force Imperial Service Badge; two portrait photographs; a set of ten silk postcards sent from France, nine of which were sent from the recipient to his future wife, and the tenth from a friend to the same recipient; and a Military Christmas Postcard from the Boer War, dated December 1900, sent to the recipient from his father whilst serving in South Africa

An M.B.E. Group of Nine to Able Seaman J.F. Gardiner, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver
b) 1939-1945 Star
c) Atlantic Star
d) Arctic Star
e) Pacific Star
f) Italy Star
g) Defence and War Medals
h) Russia, Soviet Union, 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine, together with the recipient's identity tag and two portrait photographs (12)

1566 Private Frederick Gardiner, born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1895; served with the Norfolk Regiment during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 6.8.1915.

M.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1983 John Frederick Gardiner, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Health and Social Security

JX348186 Able Seaman John Frederick Gardiner, M.B.E., (1923-2000), born Newark, Nottinghamshire, the son of Private Frederick Gardiner; enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 18.3.1942; promoted Able Seaman, 18.2.1943; released, 25.6.1946; in civilian life worked for the Department for Social Security in Nottinghamshire, and awarded the M.B.E. for services to the Department of Health and Social Security, 1.1.1983.

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