Medal Entitlement: Victoria Cross, Military Cross (MC), 1914 - 15 Star, British War Medal (1914-20), Victory Medal (1914-19) + MiD Oakleaf, King George VI Coronation Medal (1937), Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953), Cross of St George (3rd Class) (Russia) |
VC Action: Frederick Barter VC MC (17 January 1891 - 15 May 1953) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was 24 years old, and a Company Sergeant-Major in the Special Reserve, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, British Army, attached to 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 16 May 1915 at Festubert, France, when in the first line of German trenches, Company Sergeant Major Barter called for volunteers to enable him to extend our line and with eight men who responded he attacked the German position with bombs, capturing three German officers and 102 men and 500 yards of their trenches. He subsequently found and cut eleven of the enemy's mine leads, situated about twenty yards apart.
Commissioned, he was promoted to Captain and later seconded for service with the Indian Army and gained a Military Cross whilst with the 2/3rd Queen Alexandra's Gurkha Rifles in Palestine in 1918.
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