Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. B. Barnes, Royal Field Artillery, late Natal Mounted Rifles

1914-15 Star (Pte. J. B. Barnes 3rd M.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. J. B. Barnes.) edge bruising to BWM, nearly very fine (2) £40-£50

John Buckham Barnes attested for the 3rd Natal Mounted Rifles and served with them during the Great War initially in German South West African. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, he served with the 87th Brigade on the Western Front from 18 May 1916, and was killed in action on 9 May 1917. He is buried in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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