Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. J. Barrett, C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Army

1914-15 Star (Maj., C.I.E., Bo. Poll. Dept.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, very fine and better (4) £160-200

C.S.I. London Gazette 3 June 1922. ‘Major, CI.E., Bombay Political Service, First Assistant Resident, Aden’.

C.I.E. London Gazette 24 April 1918. ‘Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Indian Army, Political Department’. ‘... in recognition of meritorious services in Mesopotamia, under the command of the late Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917; 12 March 1918. ‘Capt., I.A., Political Dept.’

Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett was born in Hazareebagh, Chota Nagpur, India, on 26 May 1884, the son of E. C. Barrett of the Survey of India, and was educated at The Grammar School, Bedford and King William’s College, Isle of Man. He was commissioned in 1902 and entered the Indian Army two years later. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1904, Captain in 1911, Major in 1917, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1928. He was transferred to the Bombay Political Department in 1907 and served in India and Aden. Barrett served as Assistant Political Officer/Political Officer with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1915-19, and was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.I.E. Postwar, he was First Assistant Resident, Aden, 1919-25, Acting Resident, 1922 and 1924, Political Agent in Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, 1926-29, and Acting Resident, Persian Gulf, 1929. For his services in Aden he was awarded the C.S.I. in 1922. Barrett was appointed H.B.M. Consul General, Meshad, Persia, 1930. He died in July 1933. Sold with a quantity of copied service details.