Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant A. E. Darbyshire, Manchester Regiment and Machine Gun Corps

British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (137073 Pte. A. E. Darbyshire. M.G.C.); Jubilee 1935 (3512180 Sgt. A. E. Darbyshire. The Manchester Regt.) privately engraved naming; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (3512180 Pte. A. E. Darbyshire. 6-7-Manch. R.) mounted court-style for display, edge bruising to last and light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Albert Edward Darbyshire was born in Manchester in 1899 and joined the Machine Gun Corps in April 1917. Following the Great War he enlisted into one of the Territorial Battalions of the Manchester Regiment, which became the amalgamated 6/7th Battalion. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal per Army Order 213, of November 1930, and appears on the medal roll for the 1935 Jubilee Medal as Sergeant No. 3512180, 6/7th Manch. R. (T.A.). He was discharged in December 1936.

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