day. The battalion stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which formally ended in June 1902 after the Peace of Vereeniging. Barrett joined other officers and men of the battalion who left Cape Town on the SS Britannic in October that year, and was stationed at Aldershot after their return. In 1903 he was promoted to captain, and in June 1903 was seconded as a Wing Officer to the Malay States Guides, a mostly Sikh regiment, stationed in Perak, in the Federated Malay States. On 1 May 1907 he joined the Shanghai Municipal Police, as Assistant Superintendent of Police, heading the Sikh Branch for some years, before becoming Commissioner of Police in December 1925. On 1 October 1929 he was forced to resign after disputes about police effectiveness and reform. Barrett was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours. Barrett died 10 July 1950 in Boscombe, Bournemouth, in a bicycling accident. References External links Biography of Barrett (with photos) 1879 births 1950 deaths Cricketers from Surrey English cricketers Federated Malay States cricketers Straits Settlements cricketers Hampshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers English rugby union players England international rugby union players People from Boscombe North v South cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Lancashire Fusiliers officers Cycling road incident deaths Road incident deaths in England Rugby union players from Surrey Rugby union centres