Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Colonel N. S. Hart, East Kent Regiment, the youngest son of General Sir Reginald Hart, V.C., G.C.B., Royal Engineers

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Capt. N. S. Hart. E. Kent. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. N. S. Hart.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Major N. S. Hart. The Buffs); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Denmark, Kingdom, Order of the Dannebrog (Christian X) 5th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, minor damage to red enamel on the last, otherwise very fine and better (9) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Alan Cathery Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

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Dix Noonan Webb, March 1997.

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944.

Norman Synnot Hart war born in March 1888 and educated at Hurst Court and Cheltenham College. He joined the Buffs in 1906 and went to South Africa the following year as A.D.C. to his father at Cape Town, until 1911. He served in France with the 1st Battalion and was wounded on 7 June 1915, near Bois Confluent, during the Ypres operations. He returned to France at the end of 1916 but was gassed at Wancourt on 23 April 1917, and invalided home. He returned once again to France, late in 1918, as Acting Brigade Major with the 93rd Infantry Brigade. He served briefly on attachment with the Royal Air Force in Palestine in the mid 1920s, and with his regiment during the operations in Burma 1930-32, following which he returned to the UK as D.A.A.G. to Scottish Command. He was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog Third Class in 1931, and saw service with the Buffs as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the Second World War and was awarded the O.B.E. in 1944.

Note: The Order of the Dannebrog insignia in this lot has been added to complete the group, the original insignia awarded to Hart being returnable upon the death of the recipient.