Five: Lieutenant G. H. Barron, South Nottinghamshire Hussars, late King Edward’s Horse and Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4323 Pte., 33rd Coy., 11th Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (966 Cpl., C.P. Dist. 2); 1914-15 Star (1066 Pte., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), mounted as worn, first two with some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £120-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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George Harrison Barron was born in the Parish of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 8 January 1900, aged 27 years. He served with the 33rd (Royal East Kent) Company, 11th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa between 28 January and 27 November 1900 when he was invalided. In the latter years of the war he served with the Cape Mounted Police and during 1903-04 was Acting Chief Constable of Phillipstown, in South Africa. He attested for the King Edward’s Horse on 22 September 1914 and in February 1916 was commissioned into the 3/1 South Notts Hussars. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers.