Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. R. Lloyd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914 Star (6-497 Pte., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (6-497 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) the second medal with regimental number ‘6-496’,

Pair: Private J. R. Barrett, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914 Star (891 Pte., 1/K.R. Rif. C.); British War Medal (891 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine or better (5) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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James Robert Barrett enlisted into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in July 1898, and in September of the following year whilst serving in Cork with the 4th Battalion, waiting to embark to South Africa, he deserted. He was arrested two months later in London and court martialled, receiving 112 days hard labour. He subsequently saw service in India, before being placed on the Army Reserve in 1906. Barrett was recalled for service on the outbreak of the Great War, being posted to France on 13 August 1914. Whilst in the trenches near Hooge on 2 November 1914 he was taken prisoner by the Germans, remaining a prisoner of war for the duration of the war. In 1920 he made a sworn statement to the fact that his real name was James Robert Beavis.