Pair: Private J. Barrett, Hampshire Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1889-92 (1204. Pte. J. Barrett. 2/Hamps: R.) battalion number officially corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (1204 Pte. J. Barrett, 2nd. Hamps: Regt.) good very fine (2) £300-£400

Joseph Barrett was born in Southampton in 1865 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 30 October 1883, having previously served in the regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. He served initially with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 9 January 1886, before transferring to the 1st Battalion, and remained overseas until 19 July 1894. He was discharged on 29 October 1895, after 12 years’ service, but subsequently re-enlisted for service in South Africa during the Boer War.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts for the India General Service Medal, which shows that the medal was issued to the recipient whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, and was presumably originally named thus.