by Peter Hunt
George Barnett He wears the Queen's India Medal, The Queen's and the King's South Africa Medals and the Long Service and Good Conduct Medals It is always reassuring to receive feedback on the articles in Despatches. Knowing that someone, somewhere in cyberspace, is actually reading this stuff is a reward in itself. Since I wrote Parts I and II of this series I had done some more work on my Grandfather’s military life and had visited the South African battlefields in 2000. I was thinking about going into print again, when I received a nice email from Mrs Sheelagh le Cocq of Jersey, the Channel Islands. Like me, Mrs le Cocq never knew her grandfather but she had researched his life through family histories and newspapers. Like my grandfather, his name was also George and the two men had the same medal groups for their military service, although Mrs le Cocq’s grandfather George Barnett served in the Royal Inniskilling (although the town is Enniskillen) Fusiliers, whil