Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant K. C. Barton, 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, late Cameronians, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 October 1916

1914 Star (6542 Pte. K. Barton. 5/Sco: Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. K. C. Barton.); Memorial Plaque (Kenneth Cyril Barton) in card envelope of issue; Memorial Scroll, ‘2/Lieut. Kenneth Cyril Barton, Royal Fusiliers’, about extremely fine (5) £400-£500

Kenneth Cyril Barton was born in Ahmednuggar, India, on 28 March 1895 and was educated at King’s College, Taunton. He attested for the 5th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Territorial Force) on 14 April 1913, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 November 1914. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 October 1916, on which date the Battalion suffered heavy losses during an attack on Bayonet Trench, with total casualties of 9 officers and 313 other ranks killed, wounded, or missing. Barton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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