Campaign Groups and Pairs 316
Pair: Corporal R. M. Barrs, 1st Dragoon Guards, later Police Constable, Metropolitan Police
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (3786 Corpl: R. M. Barrs. 1st. Dgn: Gds:); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. R. Barrs.); together with a Metropolitan Police Band Championship shield medallion, silver- gilt, inscribed ‘R. M. Barrs P.C.367A. Band Championship “A” Divn. Metron. Police’, suspension bar slightly bent on QSA, very fine (3)
£200-£240
Robert Middleton Barrs was born in Westminster in 1876 and attested for the 1st Dragoon Guards in London on 13 July 1894. He served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 January 1901 to 26 June 1902, and was promoted Corporal on 24 January 1901. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 5 September 1902, and was discharged on 12 July 1906, after 12 years’ service. He subsequently served with “A” Division, Metropolitan Police.
Sold with a postcard photograph and a further photographic image of the recipient.
Note: Transvaal clasp not confirmed. 317
Pair: Sergeant E. J. Franklin, 78th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, who was mentioned in despatches for ‘good service in action at Boschbult on 31st March, 1902’ and was promoted to Sergeant by the Commander-in-Chief; commissioned in September 1914, he was wounded and then drowned as a result of the sinking of the Hospital Ship Lanfranc on 17 April 1917
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (6599 Bomb. E. J. Franklin, 78th Bty., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6599 Serjt: E. J. Franklin. R.F.A.) contained in a red leather fitted case, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £280-£320
M.I.D. London Gazette 18 July 1902: ‘6599 Corporal E. G. Franklin, 78th Battery, Royal Field Artillery [together with three Gunners of the same Battery]. For good service in action at Boschbult on 31st March, 1902.’ Franklin was promoted to Sergeant by the Commander-in-Chief and each of the three Gunners to Bombardier.
M.I.D. London Gazette 11 July 1916 and 18 May 1917.
Edgar John Franklin was born at Colchester, Essex, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Warley on 25 October 1894, aged 14 years 3 months. He served in South Africa from 13 November 1900 to 21 January 1904, was promoted to Corporal in July 1901, and to Sergeant, for services as above, in March 1902. He afterwards served in India until January 1912, by which time he had been promoted to Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 26 September 1914, and disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt, on 14 July 1915, and disembarked at Gallipoli on 9 August 1915. He returned to Egypt in December 1915 and transferred to the Western Front. He was wounded by a gunshot in the left leg on 9 April 1917, and transferred to England per Hospital Ship Lanfranc on 16 April, but was reported missing, believed drowned, as a result of the sinking of H.S. Lanfranc on 17 April 1917. He is commemorated by name on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton.
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Pair: Private J. Baker, South Staffordshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, unofficial retaining rod affixing clasps (6081 Pte. J. Baker. S. Stafford: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (10765 Pte. J. Baker. S. Staff: R.), pitting and contact marks, nearly very fine
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (Wilfred Marshall); together with an Italian Vittorio Emanuele III Royal Household Memorial Medal, bronze, good very fine (4)
£100-£140
John Baker attested for the South Staffordshire Regiment and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 May 1915. He was disembodied on 15 October 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
Sold together with a Copper Powder Flask by Dixon & Sons, 195mm in length with fluted decoration, the action broken.
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