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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 371

Three: Private P. J. Barrett, Essex Regiment, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme

1914-15 Star (16950 Pte. P. J. Barrett, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (16950 Pte. P. J. Barrett, Essex R.), the third with erased naming, very fine (3)


P. J. Barrett first served with the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment in Gallipoli from 2 September 1915. In March 1916 the Battalion was sent from Egypt to France, sailing to Marseilles and travelling by train to concentrate in the area east of Pont Remy by the end of the month. In July the Battalion went into action on the Somme, and it was here on 18 September 1916 that Barrett was killed; he is buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium, which was heavily used by field ambulances until June 1917.

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