Top honour presented to reservists, cadets and cadet volunteers in West Yorkshire
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SIR - My name is Michael Knight and I live in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. I have been searching for old comrades from the British Army, and I recently found the following article: A soldier has been honoured for exceptional service to the army for more than 40 years. Gordon Hardaker, 61, of Holyoak Avenue, Bingley, was awarded the Lord Lieutenant High Honour - which ranks immediately below an MBE - in recognition of years of dedicated service to the Territorial Army. Staff Sergeant Hardaker left Bradford to join the army on a Junior Leader Course in Newton Abbot when he was just 15. He served in the regular army for 25 years, spending a number of years in Germany, and has been on the permanent staff of the 34 Royal Signals Territorial Army in Carlton Barracks, Leeds, for the last 34 years. He said: Being in the army is a way of life more that a job and I have enjoyed it immensely .