Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3799 Pte. H. Barnes, 21/L’crs.) together with a copy Khedive‘s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, minor contact wear and a little polished, otherwise very fine (2) £1200-1400

Harry Barnes, who was born in Streatham, London, enlisted in the 21st Hussars (afterwards Lancers) in March 1894 and, following service in India between 1894-96, was embarked for Egypt in October of the latter year. As a member of ‘D’ Squadron, he subsequently participated in the famous charge at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, when it entered the khor at its widest point and suffered the highest number of fatalities owing to the concentration of the enemy. Remaining employed in Egypt and the Sudan until returning home in late 1899, Barnes was placed on the Army Reserve in November 1907. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he went out to France with the 9th Lancers in early November 1914, but was discharged in July 1916, when he was awarded the Silver War Badge and the recipient of a 1914-15 Star trio.