Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private E. Barnett, Wiltshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (21030 Pte. E. Barnett, 1/Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (21030 Pte. E. Barnett, Wilts. R.), number and rank officially corrected on the second, good very fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

Eli Barnett, who was from Corsham, Wiltshire, originally enlisted in the 8th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment in May 1914, but did not go out to France until at least 1916, having transferred in the interim to the 1st Battalion.