Four: Colonel A. E. Barchard, late 2nd West India Regiment

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1896-98 (Capt. A. E. Barchard, 2nd/W. India Rgt.); British War and Victory Medals (Col. A. E. Barchard); Coronation 1911, the first with (loose) repaired suspension claw, contact marks and cleaned overall, otherwise generally very fine (4) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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Ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection, 4 December 1991 (Lot 292).

Arthur Elphinstone Barchard, who was born in May 1868, was commissioned in the 2nd West India Regiment in January 1889 and had risen to the rank of Captain by the time of his participation in the West Africa operations of 1896-98, when he served in the Northern Territories on the Gold Coast (Medal & clasp). Magor states ‘it would seem that only 200 or so of the West India Regiment were eligible. This clasp is therefore rightly described by Gordon as rare.’ Barchard, who had earlier served as Garrison Adjutant in Jamaica from October 1893 to February 1895, prior to being posted in a similar capacity to Sierra Leone in March 1896, was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1911, and presumably commanded the West India Regiment detachment at the Coronation celebrations.