Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (38670 Pte. A. H. Barreau, Hamps. R.), good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to Channel Islanders.

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Arthur Hamptonne Barreau was born in 1879, the son of Francis, a surgeon, and Adela Barreau of Clarence House, St. Helier, Jersey. Educated at Victoria College, Jersey, he was a talented artist and a member of the Societe Jersiaise, his work for the latter including illustrations of archaeological finds from the excavations at La Cotte de St. Brelade. Of his subsequent service in the Hampshire Regiment little is known, other than the fact he was entitled only to a single British War Medal on account of having been employed in India, though as a Staff Sergeant he went on to witness active service in the Third Afghan War (Medal & clasp). Returning to Jersey shortly afterwards, he died in 1922, leaving £8,000 to his aunt, Emilia Augusta Barreau, who in turn donated the sum to the building of an art gallery at the Museum of the Societe Jersiaise in Pier Road, as a permanent memorial to her nephew. It was opened by then Bailiff, Sir William Venables Vernon, in January 1925; sold with copied research.