Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of seven awarded to Gunner A. W. Barnes, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (305555 Gnr. A. W. Barnes, Can. F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (305555 Gnr. A. W. Barnes, C.F.A.); Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, silver; Arnprior Tribute Medal, inscribed, ‘Presented by the Citizens of Arnprior 1919’ and ‘To A. Barnes for Valiant Service in The European War’, 32mm., gold, 15.47g., unmarked, and his Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘G. 41392 Pte. A. W. Barnes’, good very fine and better (6) £500-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 11 December 1918.

Arthur William Barnes was born in Ottawa in 1874 and enlisted into the 32nd Battery, 8th Brigade, C.F.A. in 1915, in which capacity he was awarded his M.M.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Barnes enlisted into the Veterans Guard of Canada, and was employed on local protection duties in addition to sentry work for prisoners of war. He died however of heart problems on 7 November 1941, and was buried in his home town of Arnprior, Ontario; sold with two Veterans’ lapel badges and three ‘Veterans Guard’ cloth badges, together with a quantity of copied service papers.