Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain M. L. Barrett, Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides

British War Medal 1914-20 (Captn. M. L. Barrett.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. M. L. Barrett.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, N.W. Persia (Capt. M. L. Barrett.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £200-£240

Michael Long Barrett was educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Indian Army in 1915, being attached to Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden’s). With them he saw service in Mesopotamia both during and after the Great War. Whilst serving there he contracted an illness which obliged him to retire on 15 June 1928. He died shortly afterward in Tillingham, aged 36, and was buried in St. Nicholas’ Churchyard with full military honours - the firing party being provided by the Middlesex Regiment from the Colchester Garrison.

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