Description
Sudan Medal 1898, 4891 Private G. Barnes, 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Officially engraved: “4891 Pte G. Barnes. 1/R. War: R”
Confirmed on the medal roll, earning a matching Khedive’s Sudan bar Khartoum for Omdurman.
George Henry Barnes was a local man from Birmingham, who joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 18th December 1896 aged 19.
He was already a serving member of the 4th Militia Bn R Warwick Regt at the time whilst working as a Pearl Button Maker.
Following his service overseas in Egypt during the 1898 Nile Expedition culminating in the Battle of Omdurman, he spent 6 years in India, where he got his Telegraphy Certificate in 1902 and Swimming as at Bergaum.
He returned home to join the Army Reserve in 1904, finishing out his 12 years by 1908.
Service:
Home, 12th Dec 1896 – 19th Dec 1897
Egypt, 20th Dec 1897 – 17th October 1898
East Indies, 18th Oct 1898 – 13th December 1904
Home, 14th Dec 1904 – 11th Dec 1908.
Having got out of active service he married Edith Amy Clakett at St Pauls Church in Aston on 26th July 1905.
