Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. R. M. Barrington. 1st. Bn. Hamps. R.) good very fine £240-£280

Roy Painter Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2022.

Richard Mordaunt Barrington was born on 23 February 1866 and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 29 August 1885, and was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General of Ordnance, Dublin, with the Supernumerary rank of Captain, on 6 December 1893. He was confirmed in the rank of Captain on 24 March 1899, and was placed on temporary half-pay, on account of ill-health - believed to be deafness - on 28 September 1900. He transferred to retired pay on 24 October 1900, and died in Co. Cork, Ireland on 19 July 1909, aged 45, his death certificate noting his cause of death as being ‘bullet wound, self-inflicted’.

Sold with copied death certificate, medal roll extract, and other research.