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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 525

(x) Three: Lieutenant F. S. Barnes, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action in the El Alamein operations of November 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; War Medal 1939-45, with Army Council condolence slip in the name of 'Lieut. F. S. Barnes', nearly extremely fine (3)


Frank Stanley Barnes was the son of Stanley J. Barnes and Violet A. Barnes, and husband of Marjories S. Barnes, of Cheam, Surrey. He worked for many years before the war in his father's estate agency in Wandsworth Common, before joining the Territorials in January 1939. Successfully evacuated from Dunkirk, he was killed in action on 8 November 1942 whilst serving as a mine clearance specialist; sold with contemporary photograph of him in uniform.

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Sold for
£130