Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 669 x

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£420

Eight: Major R. M. Barnes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

1914-15 Star
(2 Lieut., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-18 (Lieut.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt., 2-21 Pjbis.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, very fine and better (8) £250-300

Robert Money Barnes first entered the French theatre of war as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in December 1915, but ended the war as a Captain in the 2/21 Punjabis, with whom he served in the Waziristan operations. He was advanced to Major in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, in July 1921, and went on to write some well-known titles on British and Indian regiments and uniforms.