SERGEANT W. BARRATT, ROYAL ENGINEERS. Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Victoria, 3rd type (1874-1901), swiveling scroll suspension with smaller reverse lettering, renamed, contemporary re-engraved naming in plain block capitals: 17411. SERGT. W. BARRATT. RL. ENGRS. Some minor edge nicks, otherwise Good Very Fine or perhaps a little better.
Medal accompanied by biographical details, copied extract 1871 census, 5 pages copied service and discharge papers and copy death certificate.
William Barratt was born in Eltham, Kent, in March 1862, the son of Charles and Margaret Barratt. He is recorded in the 1871 census as an 8 year old schoolboy resident in Eltham with his father, a brother and a lodger (William's mother died in 1862 when he was only a baby). Barratt enlisted into the Royal Engineers on 20/3/1882, was eventually discharged at the Curragh Camp, Ireland, with the rank of Sergeant on 19/3/1903, and died at Salford Royal Hospital in 1936.
