Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Warrant Officer Class II R. F. G. Bartropp, Royal Canadian Engineers

1914-15 Star (G-17682 Pte. R. F. G. Bartropp. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (G-17682 Pte. R. F. G. Bartropp. R. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with Overseas Service bar; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, the five Second War awards all in card boxes of issue; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (D.16147 CSM. R. F. G. Bartropp), with silver bow riband suspension bar; together with another family member’s War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver (Dennis Bartropp) contemporarily engraved naming, the Great War awards good fine, the Second War awards extremely fine (10) £180-220

Robert Frederick George Bartropp was born in Ilford, Essex in 1899 and served during the Great War in the Royal Fusiliers. Emigrating to Canada after the War, he served during the Second World War in the Royal Canadian Engineers, and was advanced to Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant Major). He died on 13 November 1945, presumably as a result of wounds received or illness contracted whilst on active service, and is buried under a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone in Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery, Canada.

Sold with the recipient’s Second War identity tag and riband bar.