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Auction: 5019 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 466

Eleven: Major R.M.S. Barton, Royal Artillery, Late 2nd Battalion 11th Gurkha Rifles, and 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. R.M.S. Barton. 1-6-Gurkha R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R.M.S. Barton.); General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (Capt. R.M.S. Barton.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; Territorial Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., reverse dated ´1951´, with integral ´Territorial´ top riband bar, cleaned, nearly extremely fine, mounted court style (11) Estimate £ 550-600T.D. London Gazette 12.1.1951 M.I.D. London Gazette5.4.1945 Captain R.M.S. Barton (93925) Royal Artillery ´For gallant and distinguished services in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India.´ Major R. Maurice Searle Barton, T.D., born in Frampton, Gloucestershire 4.8.1892; Second Lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers, 18.12.1914; attached 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, 9.9.1915; Lieutenant 18.12.1915; served in Egypt and Mesopotamia during the Great War; commanded "C" Company 2nd Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles at Ramadi, September 1917; Captain 18.12.1918; served with 1st Battalion 5th Gurkha Rifles, 1918-1919; attached 2nd Battalion 11th Gurkha Rifles 1920; retired 20.11.1922; Assistant Commandant, Mewar Bhil Corps and Assistant Political Superintendent, Hilly Tracts, Mewar, 6.7.1926; re-engaged as Staff Captain Royal Artillery (T.A.) for the Second War, 16.6.1939; posted to Mountain Artillery Training Centre, Amballa, India; retired Honorary Major, 2.11.1947.

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