The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment

Five: Captain (Quartermaster) A. G. Wynne, Manchester Regiment

1914-15 Star (2 Q.M. Sjt. A. G. Wynne. Manch: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Capt. A. G. Wynne.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (5422 Q.M. Sjt: A. G. Wynne. 6/V.B. Manch: Regt.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar, pin removed to assist mounting, mounted court-style for display, light contact marks, very fine (5) £240-£280

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

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Arthur Gilbert Wynne was born in the cavalry barracks in Toronto, Canada, on 17 September 1868, the son of Thomas Wynne, a Trumpet Major in the 13th Hussars. Arthur Wynne returned to the U.K. and resided with an uncle while he attended Leeds University and Teacher Training College. In 1887 he joined the 7th (Volunteer) Battalion of The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment. Having married and moved to Oldham he transferred to the 6th (Volunteer) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment on 9 May 1898 as a Sergeant. He was promoted to Colour Sergeant on 9 September 1899 and to Quarter Master Sergeant on 9 March 1904.

In 1908, following the creation of the Territorial Force, Wynne signed up again to the new 10th (Territorial) Battalion the Manchester Regiment and was allotted service number ‘2’. During the Great War he served overseas with his battalion, proceeding with them to Egypt in September 1914. In January 1915 he was promoted to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant and on 10 June, to Lieutenant and Quarter Master. He was invalided from Gallipoli in October 1915, suffering from dysentery and jaundice, but rejoined the battalion at Ashton Post on the Sinai Peninsula in March 1916. In March 1917 the battalion landed at Marseilles, bound for the Western Front, taking part in the 3rd Battle of Ypres or Passchendaele. He returned to the U.K. on 16 August 1918, having been continuously on active service since September 1914. For the remainder of the War he served ‘at Home’ at Kinmel Camp, from which he was discharged on 21 March 1919, having been promoted Quartermaster and Captain on 16 January 1919.

Shortly after being demobilised, Wynne wrote a short history of the 10th Battalion in the Great War, which was serialised in the Oldham Chronicle in 1919. He was obliged to resign his commission on age grounds on 17 September 1925, at the age of 57. During the Second World War he served in the local Home Guard. He died at Oldham on 28 July 1945. He was universally respected and admired by all the officers and other ranks and was affectionately known as ‘Daddy Wynne’.

Sold with extensive copied research including service papers, extracts from the Regimental Journal, copies of the serialised short History of 10th Battalion and copied photograph from the Manchester Regiment Gazette.