Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. F. Barrat, Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Lieutenant, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (2331 Pte. H. F. Barrat, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. F. Barrat.) better than very fine (3) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Harold Frederic Barrat was born in 1883 at Charlton, Woolwich, Kent and having attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry served in the ranks of the Buckinghamshire Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 March 1915. He attended the Officer Cadet School near St. Omer for one month and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment on 14 August 1915. Promoted Lieutenant on 3 December 1916, he was demobilised on 13 May 1919.