Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Bartholomew, Rifle Brigade

Tibet 1903-04 (9130 Pte. J. Bartholomew 3d. Bn. Rifle Bde); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (9130 Pte. J. Bartholomew. Rifle Bde.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and rare (2) £600-800

Provenance: M. Haines Collection, December 2002.

John Bartholomew was born in Clerkenwell, London, and attested for the Rifle Brigade, 12 November 1887. He qualified in ‘Electrio Telegraphy’ on 29 July 1896 and was subsequently employed for nine years in the Indian Telegraph Department, four years of which he was in sole charge of a station. He served with the Tibet Mission in 1904 (Medal), and in November of that year went to Aden where he remained until January 1906. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal in October 1906 and was discharged at Bordon on 7 November 1908. Private Bartholomew appears in a group photograph, wearing his medals, in the Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1908.

The only other Rifle Brigade recipient of the Tibet Medal was Captain A. F. Maclachlan, who served with the Supply & Transport Corps.