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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 662

Sold by the Estate of a Direct Descendent

Five: Captain G. R. Barton, Cheshire Regiment, who was killed in action aged 44 in April 1918

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Capt. G. R. Barton 4/Cheshire Regt.), mounted as worn by Spink & Son; 1914-15 Star (Capt. G. R. Barton. Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. R. Barton), with named boxes of issue; Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Rawdon Barton), in card case of issue and Buckingham Palace enclosure, the first with unofficial rivets upon top two clasps, otherwise extremely fine (5)

George Rawdon Barton was born in 1874 at Farndreg, Dundalk, Ireland and educated at Monkton Combe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. It was in 1893 at Cambridge that he Coxed the Trinity boat to victory in the 'Clinker Fours'. Barton was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment, serving with the 4th Battalion at the rank of Captain in South Africa. During the Boer War he was Acting District Commissioner at Harrismith and Vrede in the Orange River, being transferred to the Reserve in 1908. Re-called for the Great War, he served initially with the 2nd Battalion in Flanders, being wounded Verlorenhoek during the Second Battle of Ypres. Recovered from his wounds and transferred to the 11th Battalion, Rawdon was killed in action on 10 April 1918. He is commemorated upon the Ploegsteert Memorial and together with his brother, at the St. Nicholas Parish Church, Dundalk; sold together with his Cambridge University 'Clinker Fours 1893' prize medal, 52mm, silver, the reverse glazed, in its fitted case of issue, the inner lid with engraved silver plaque detailing the crew including Barton and Cheshire Regiment cap Badge.

For the recipient's miniature dress Medal, please see Lot 1031. For the Medals to his brother, Captain F. H. Barton, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, please see Lot xxx.

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£700