Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, second clasp unofficially attached (4380. Pte. E. Barnicoat. 1st. Bn. Dorset. Regt.) suspension loose, very fine £160-200

Edwin Henry Barnicoat was born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1876, and attested for the Dorset Regiment at Dorchester on 21 June 1894, whilst serving with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Dorset Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from February 1897 until December 1906, and was present during the operations on the Punjab Frontier and with the Tirah Field Force, October 1897 to April 1898. Awarded a Certificate for Mounted Infantry Duties at Ambala on 30 March 1905, he returned to the U.K. on 9 December 1906, and was discharged on his own request on 31 July 1913, after 19 years and 41 days’ service.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Barnicoat re-enlisted in the Dorset Regiment at Dorchester on 24 August 1914, and was posted to the 3rd Battalion. He served during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 24 May 1916, and was promoted Corporal on 10 July 1916. He died on active service of a ruptured urethra at No. 79 General Hospital, Taranto, Italy, on 3 March 1919, and is buried in Taranto Town Cemetery Extension, Italy.