The Military Medal has been award ed to Sergeant E, G. Hardy, of the Royal Artillery, in charge of gun onthe sta coast on August 18, which engaged an enemy plane, A pater bute fel the cable of which, swith 2 bomb attached, fouled the girders of the observation post, leaving the Bomb suspended in mid-air.
Sergeant Hardy ordered the gun team to a safe distance, examined the Bemb, detached it from the parachute and threw it into the sca. The bomb exploded in mid-air a few feet from Sergeant Hardy, who was blown backwards by the blast but not Lance-Corporal J. E. Stevens Vale, Lance-Corporal J. Miller (both of the Scots Guards) "and Private Joseph Lister, of the Border Regiment of the Territorial Army, have also. been awarded Military Medals for similar heroic exploits during a heavy serial attack on August 18 on an aerodrome they helped to defend.
Lance-Corporal Miller shot down one. bomber.
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