Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.I.E. group of five awarded to Captain E. I. M. Barrett, Commissioner of Police, Shanghai, late Lancashire Fusiliers, who was wounded at Venters Spruit during the Boer War; a keen sportsman, he played Rugby Union for England; first class cricket for Hampshire; and won the Japan Amateur Golf Championship

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, the first clasp a tailor’s copy (Lieut. E. I. M. Barrett. Lanc. Fusrs.) officially re-engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E. I. M. Barrett. Lanc. Fusrs.) officially re-engraved naming; Shanghai Municipal Police Long Service Medal, silver (Capt. E. I. M. Barrett, C.I.E., Com of Police) edge prepared prior to naming; War Medal 1939-45, the second, third, and fourth mounted as worn, the War Medal loose, retaining rod missing from the Shanghai award, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £1,800-£2,200

C.I.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919:
‘For meritorious services connected with the War.’

Edward Ivo Medhurst Barrett was born in Churt, Surrey, on 22 June 1879 and was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers on 11 February 1899, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War as part of the Ladysmith Relief Force, and was slightly wounded at the engagement at Venters Spruit on 20 January 1900. Promoted captain in 1902, in June of that year he was seconded as a wing officer to the Malay States Guides. He joined the Shanghai Municipal Police on 1 May 1907, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1919. He served as Commissioner of Police, Shanghai from 1925 to 1929.

A keen sportsman, Barrett played rugby union for England against Scotland in the Calcutta Cup Match in the 1903 Four Nations Championship (which Scotland won 10-6 on their way to the Triple Crown), and between 1896 and 1925 played 86 first class cricket matches for both Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club, with a top score of 215. He also won the Japan amateur golf championship in 1917. He died in Boscombe on 10 July 1950.

Sold with the recipient’s original Bestowal Document for the C.I.E.

For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 533.