Orders, Decorations and Medals

An early Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant Major J. Barwick, Scots Guards
Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly inscribed ‘3218 Sgt. Maj. J.W. Barwick (1st Scots Guards) European War 1914’; 1914 Star with clasp (3218 C.Sjt. (C.S.M.), S.Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (3218 W.O.Cl.2., S.Gds.) the B.W.M. officially re-impressed, contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £400-500

M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915. This Gazette contained the very first awards of the Military Cross, including Barwick and a small number of other Warrant Officers. No citations were published but the awards were clearly for good work during 1914. Barwick also served in the Boer War and is entitled to the Q.S.A. with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and S.A. 1902.