Victory Medal.
George VI Special Constabulary Long Service Medal.
3526 A. Cpl. M. Vardy, 16th London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles).
Maurice Vardy was born in 1892 in the parish of Norton in Ecclesall
Bierlow, one of the six 'townships' making up the old Parish of
Sheffield. He was the second of eight children born to John Vardy, a
gardener, and his wife, Ellen. The 1911 Census records the family as
residing at Brompton Road, Northallerton, and Maurice is described as an
18 year old gardener, clearly following in his father's footsteps. The
outbreak of the First World War found him as a student at Kew Gardens in
London. Like many others at Kew, he enlisted in the ranks of the 16th
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) and saw overseas service
with the 2/16th Battalion in France and Palestine. Returning to Kew
after the war, he would stay there till 1920 until finding employment
with the Colonial Service.
In March 1920, Maurice Vardy and his wife travelled to Grenada, where Maurice's father had a government post. Here he worked as the Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture. In 1921, Maurice was transferred to the Gold Coast, where he took up the post of Supervisor of Fruit & Vegetable Farms. Later he worked in Sierra Leone as the head of the Fruit Experimental Station at Newton, near Freetown. In 1932, his wife's ill health necessitated a return to the United Kingdom, where he set up a market garden which he ran until he retired at the age of 70. Maurice Vardy passed away at the age of 86, his death being registered at Darlington, Yorkshire in 1978.
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