The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment

Five: Private J. Smith, Manchester Regiment
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22700793 Pte. J. Smith. Manch.) mounted court-style for display, very fine and better

Four: Private C. Forrester, Manchester Regiment, later Royal Engineers
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3521962. Spr. C. Forrester. R.E.) mounted court-style for display with the addition of the riband of the India General Service Medal 1908-35, very fine (9) £120-£160

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

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J. Smith served in the reformed 1st Battalion the Manchester Regiment which landed in Normandy on 26 June 1944, and saw further service in the Malayan Emergency in 1951.
Cecil Forrester was born on 3 June 1907 at Ardwick, Manchester. He attested for service in the Manchester Regiment at 1927 at Ashton under Lyne, at the age of 18, serving with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma, and is entitled to the India General Service Medal 1908, with clasp for Burma 1930-32. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 1934. He rejoined the Royal Engineers (T.A.) on 13 June 1939, his home address at the time being at Stockport. He served in the B.E.F. in France from October 1943 and later in the War in Persia and Iraq. Sapper C. Forrester was awarded the Efficiency Medal in Army Orders List Number 3 of July 1946. He died at Stockport in December 1972.

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