Orders, Decorations and Medals

An M.V.O. group of five awarded to Sergeant Henry Gulliver Barrett, Royal Horse Artillery

The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered, ‘589’, minor enamel damage; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (49234 Sgt., U Bty., R.H.A.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (49234 Sjt., R.H.A.); Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Henry Gulliver Barrett was born in Woolwich on 2 May 1871; his father was Richard Barrett, a Sergeant in the Riding Establishment, Royal Artillery. Following his father’s footsteps, Henry Barrett joined the Royal Horse Artillery and as a Sergeant in ‘U’ Battery R.H.A. served in the Second Boer War and was awarded the Queen’s medal with two clasps. He was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. with Gratuity by A.O. 172 of October 1903. After leaving the Army he joined the ‘Royal Service’. As Clerk of the Stables at Marlborough House he was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in Silver on 31 December 1925, on the occasion of the death of Queen Alexandra, on 20 November 1925. He was subsequently in the Household of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and for many years organised the reunion dinners of ‘Q’ Battery, R.H.A. As ‘Storekeeper, Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace’, he was awarded the Royal Victorian Order M.V.O. 5th Class (London Gazette 2 January 1933), the award dated 29 July 1932. H. G. Barrett died in Croydon General Hospital on 13 November 1932 and was buried in Carshalton Cemetery. Sold with copied research.