Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Corporal A. J. Barnes, Royal Engineers, late Middlesex Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (107400 L. Cpl., 8/D.S. Co. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (13837 Pte., Midd’x. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (1858977 A. Cpl., R.E.); together with a 1914 Star, with copy clasp, this with erased naming, good very fine (6) £250-300

M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917.

Arthur Joseph Barnes, a Wire Rope maker by occupation, entered the Middlesex Regiment in November 1911. He was transferred to the Royal Engineers in August 1915. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, 5 November 1914-24 December 1916; Salonica, 5 December 1918-4 January 1919, and Trans-Caucasia, from 4 January 1919. For his service in the 8th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, attached 23rd Infantry Brigade, he was awarded the Military Medal. He was transferred to ‘Class Z’ Reserve on 20 July 1919. Sold with Middlesex Regiment cap badge; a number of copied service papers, m.i.c., etc. Several times listed for misdemenours on his Regimental Conduct Sheet.