WING COMMANDER McHARDY, DSO., DFC & BAR. - Picture (issued 1945) shows - Wing Commander Edric Hartgill McHardy, who was born in 1920 at Ashurst, New Zealand, and educated at Hereworth School, Havelock North, and Wanganui Collegiate School. His parents live at Waipawa, Hakwe's Bay, New Zealand. During 1938 he served as a trooper in the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles and was commissioned in the a year later. He was awarded the in March 1941, gaining a Bar to it in July 1942, and the DSO in August 1944. He is now serving with an Coastal Command station. While in co
WING COMMANDER McHARDY, DSO., DFC & BAR. - Picture (issued 1945) shows - Wing Commander Edric Hartgill McHardy, who was born in 1920 at Ashurst, New Zealand, and educated at Hereworth School, Havelock North, and Wanganui Collegiate School. His parents live at Waipawa, Hakwe's Bay, New Zealand. During 1938 he served as a trooper in the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles and was commissioned in the a year later. He was awarded the in March 1941, gaining a Bar to it in July 1942, and the DSO in August 1944. He is now serving with an Coastal Command station. While in command of his squadron he took part in eleven anti- shipping operations, four of which developed into major and successful attacks on enemy vessels. He destroyed at least three enemy aircraft and damaged others. He directed fighter operations in the Vaagso raid from a Naval vessel. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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