Private Norman Bartholomew was wounded 15 March 1944 during operations in Burma.

Post war served as a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police. 

1963 awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division).

Constables Thomas and Bartholomew went to a building site in Camberwell where a block of flats, 165 feet high, was under construction. Twelve feet from the building and attached at intervals to its side by steel ties was a builder's hoist of lattice-girder construction. The hoist was 200 feet high. On arrival the Officers saw a man on the scaffolding of the building about six floors up throwing planks of wood and other loose building materials at people in the road. The scene was illuminated by searchlights of the London Fire Brigade. The man climbed up the girder work to the top where he started swinging about on the side of the hoist and shouting. Thomas and Bartholomew entered the building and climbed the partly constructed stairway to the top floor. At this level there was a loading platform of scaffolding and planks extending 8 feet from the building alongside a girder 12 inches wide by 12 feet long. The man was clinging to the hoist some feet above this level. Constable Thomas walked out to the end of the girder, holding on to a scaffolding pole, and tried to persuade him to come down.

Constable Bartholomew followed and sat down astride the girder to support Thomas. The man refused to come off the hoist but suddenly collapsed and fell but Thomas leaned out and managed to grab hold of his raincoat and to hold him in mid-air. Constable Bartholomew locked his legs around the steel tie and held Thomas around his waist to support him. Between them they managed to pull the man on to the loading platform and into the building. The two officers were in great danger during their efforts to get the man off the hoist. Had they fallen between the hoist and the building to the ground some 165 feet below they would almost certainly have been killed.