The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment

Pair: Private S. Booth, Manchester Regiment

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (3519484 Pte. S. Booth. Manch. R.); War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, minor edge nicks, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90

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

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Sydney Booth was born at Liscard, Wallasey, Cheshire on 11 October 1905. After leaving school he joined the Merchant Navy as a ‘Buffet Boy’, but enlisted in the Manchester Regiment on 19 March 1924 and was posted to 1st Battalion on 21 August 1924. He served in Germany and at ‘home’ in Shorncliffe Barracks, before being posted to 2nd Battalion for service in India and Burma on 27 March 1928, and served in the Burma campaign from 1930 to 1932. He was discharged to the Army Reserve on 28 February 1932, before re-enlisting into the Royal Artillery on 3 May 1938. During the Second World War he served at home in coastal battery and anti-aircraft defences, and his service papers confirm that the 1939-45 War Medal was his sole medal entitlement for the Second World War. He died at Birkenhead in February 1973.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.