Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Burma 1885-7 campaign medal awarded to Surgeon J. P. Barry, Indian Medical Service, father-in-law to Sir Richard Lamb, K.C.S.I., C.S.I.

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgn. J. P. Barry I.M.S.); together with the unnamed Delhi Durbar 1911 silver medal awarded to his daughter Kathleen Maud who was married to Sir Richard Lamb, toned, nearly extremely fine (2) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lamb Family Medals.

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J. P. Barry, the father-in-law of Sir Richard Lamb, was the author of ‘At the Gates of the East: A Book of Travel Among Historic Wonderlands’.

Sold with two photographs of Barry in uniform wearing medal ribbon and others in later life with children, together with a white metal commemorative medal for the Royal Visit to India 1905-06.