Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Three: Lieutenant F. S. Barnes, Royal Engineers, killed in action shortly after the battle of El Alamein

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; War Medal, with Army Council condolence slip (Lieut. F. S. Barnes) and in card box of issue addressed to his widow, Mrs M. S. Bibby (since re-married), of Cheam, Surrey, extremely fine (3) £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Frank Stanley Barnes was the son of Stanley J. Barnes and of Violet A. Barnes, and husband of Marjorie S. Barnes (nee Wood), of Cheme, Surrey. Prior to the War he worked for several years in the Wandsworth Common office of his father’s estate agency. He joined the Territorials in January 1939 and took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. As a mine clearance specialist, he was killed in action on 8 November 1942, shortly after the battle of El Alamein, and is buried in El Alamein War Cemetery.