A Collection of Awards to the Worcestershire Regiment formed by Group Captain J. E. Barker
John E Barker
John Barker grew up in wartime Worcestershire. Post-war he served a School of Electronics electrical engineering apprenticeship at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (T.R.E.) at Malvern, later renamed Radar Research Establishment (R.R.E.). After two years working on electronics at the Department of Atomic Energy’s Windscale Works in Cumberland, and gaining Graduate membership of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, National Service requirements had to be met. The Royal Air Force decided he would be useful as an Electrical Engineer officer and thus began a 33-year service career. John’s interest in medals was sparked by an existing Orders and Medals Research Society member, the late Lieutenant-Commander Derek Woollett, and so, in January 1970, he became Member no. 904. His initial, wide, Royal Air Force medals interest led to a ‘R.A.F. Between the Wars (1919-1939)’ theme and this has been maintained ever since, although, as with most collectors, he also inevitably acquired aviation medals and groups of special interest that sat outside the strict parameters of the chosen theme. Following his retirement from the Royal Air Force in 1988, he decided to research the family medals of two uncles who had been young Great War army officers killed within a week of each other in 1918, one of whom had been awarded the Military Cross whilst serving with the Royal Field Artillery, whilst the other had served in the Worcestershire Regiment; thus began his second medals collecting theme, ‘The Worcestershire Regiment and its Predecessors’, which was sold at Dix Noonan Webb in September 2017. John presently assists with medals research at the Mercian Regiment Museum Archives at Worcester, and is a member of both the Birmingham Medal Society and the Cotswold Branch of the OMRS.
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 27 September 2017.
Other Collections Sold in 2017
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- 19th Century Silver Tokens from the Collection formed by Duncan Pennock
- Banknotes of the USA, the Property of a Gentleman
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- A Fine Collection of Militaria formed by the late Major J.J. Crooks
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- A Fine Collection of Britannia Groats, the property of a Lady
- A Collection of Maundy Sets, the property of a Late Collector
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- Roman Coins from the Collection of Philip Cox
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- A Collection of Awards to the Worcestershire Regiment formed by Group Captain J. E. Barker
- A Collection of Awards for the Boer War formed by Doug Jenkins
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- The Collection of Oxford City 17th Century Tokens formed by the late Harrington Manville
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- The Barrett J Carr Collection of Nurses’ Medals
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