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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 4

A 1942 Civil Division C.B. Group of Six to Colonel M. Barkley, Northamptonshire Regiment, Late Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Civil Division, Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1939), very fine, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Lieut. M. Barkley. 3 Co. 1/ Imp. Yeo.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major M. Barkley) d) Territorial Force War Medal, unnamed e) Defence Medal f) Jubilee 1935 g) Coronation 1937, lacquered, contact marks, very fine, the pre-Second War awards mounted as worn, together with the related six pre-Second War miniature awards (8) Estimate £ 500-700 C.B. (Civil) London Gazette 1.1.1942 Brevet Colonel MacDonald Barkley, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Huntingdon Colonel MacDonald Barkley, C.B., born 1871; educated at Haileybury and Lincoln College, Oxford; Commissioned Lieutenant, 2.6.1900; served with the 3rd (Gloucestershire) Company, 1st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, and severely wounded at Brandw´r Basin, 24.8.1900; served during the Great War with the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion, attached to the 7th Sherwood Foresters in France (Mentioned in Despatches); Major 13.5.1916; Lieutenant-Colonel, 17.8.1917; Commanded the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, 1919-24; Appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Huntingdon, 30.10.1919; Managing Director, Huntingdon Steeplechases; served during the Second War as Zone Commander, Huntingdonshire Home Guard, 1940-42; Assistant Secretary, Territorial Army Association, Northampton, 1942-44. Colonel Barkley died, 8.7.1956.

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