Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon A. W. E. B. Barrett, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (A. W. E. B. Barrett, Surgn. R.N. H.M.S. Cygnet); Khedive’s Star, 1884-86, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-350

Ex Payne, Phillips and Firth Collections.

Arthur William Egerton Brydges Barrett was appointed Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 25 August 1881, and to the Cygnet, composite gunboat, in the Mediterranean on 6 January 1883. He took part in the operations at Suakin in 1885 (Medal with clasp), and is believed to have died at Netley Hospital sometime in 1887.