Three: Private J. Barry, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was killed on 19 September 1914

1914 Star (9010 Pte. J. Barry. S’ Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (9010 Pte. J. Barry. S. Wales Bord.) very fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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John Barry was born in 1886 at Kensal Green, Middlesex and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 4 January 1906. Deployed overseas to Pretoria, South Africa with the 2nd Battalion in December 1910, he subsequently served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 August 1914. Private Barry’s Medal Index Card states that he was killed in action on 19 September 1914 whereas the Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects records that he was killed on that date by accidentally falling from a train. He was the son of Timothy Barry of 237, 7th Street, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A. and the late Margaret Barry and is buried in Les Gonards Cemetery, Versailles, France.