Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal F. A. Barnes, Royal Canadian Dragoons, late Royal Sussex Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (226520 Cpl. F. A. Barnes, R. Can. Dgns.); 1914 Star (9350 Cpl. F. A. Budd, R. Suss. R.) late issue; British War and Victory Medals (226520 Sjt. F. A. Barnes, R.C.D.) note different names, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000

M.M. London Gazette 2 April 1918.

Frank Arthur Barnes was born in Brighton, Sussex on 29 April 1893. He enlisted into the Royal Sussex Regiment under the name of ‘Budd’ and serving with the 2nd Battalion he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 August 1914. He is next recorded as having attested for the Canadian Forces at Kingston, on 28 October 1915. His papers state he was then employed as a Labourer, living in Bellville, Ontario, with no reference made to this earlier service. Serving with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, he earned the Military Medal in France (no citation).

With copied Canadian attestation paper and m.i.c. (2) under the name of ‘Barnes’ and ‘Budd’ - these are cross-referenced. That to ‘Budd’ states that the 1914 Star was returned to the medal office re. K.R. 1743 (medal unclaimed). At a later unspecified date the 1914 Star with clasp and rosette were issued to the recipient.