Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Battery Sergeant Major E. Barker, 107 (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Army), who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Bir Hacheim in North Africa on 6 June 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (4910987 Sjt. E. Barker. R.A.) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

Edgar Barker was born in Nottingham on 3 October 1907. He sometime joined the South Staffordshire Regiment, and later transferred to the South Nottinghamshire Hussars (Territorial Army), and served with the 107th (South Nottingham Hussars) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery during the Second World War in North Africa as a Battery Sergeant Major. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Bir Hacheim, during the Battle of Knightsbridge, on 6 June 1942, on which date the Regiment was over-run and wiped-out during the action. He was transferred to Italy for detention and was held at Campo 98 at San Giuseppe Jato, Palermo, until September 1943, before being further detained at Stalag XVIlI-A at Wolfsberg. He was liberated from Stalag 357 at Kopernikus.

Barker was awarded his Efficiency Medal per Army Order 204 of 1941, and the Second Award Bar per Army Order 157 of 1949. He died in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, in November 1988.

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