Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Able Seaman George Hardway, Indian Navy, later Metropolitan Fire Brigade

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (G. Hardway, A.B. Ajdaha, S.F.); Metropolitan Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C. (George Hardway); Marine Society Reward of Merit, silver with later gilding (George Hardway); Stepney Presentation Medal 1867, a fine silver engraved medal, signed A. C. Payne, Sc., hallmarked London 1866, obverse: two shields within a laurel wreath, one with depiction of the Tower of London, the other with arms of Stepney, Queen’s crown above; reverse: inscribed within an oak wreath ‘Presented to George Hardway, Fire Escape Condtr. No. 46, by the inhabitants of STEPNEY for his past Energetic Services 1867’, the suspension bar inscribed on either side ‘Encourage the Brave’and ‘My Strength is from Heaven’, generally very fine and a most unusual group (4) £1200-1400