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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 15

The Unique ´Atbara´ Casualty D.C.M. Group of Eight to Sergeant, Later Major G. Hilton, Scots Guards, Attached Egyptian Army, Later Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry and King´s Own Scottish Borderers, Who was Wounded at the Battle of The Atbara, 8.5.1898; Commissioned During Service in South Africa; Present During Operations Against the Mullah in Somaliland; and Twice Wounded on the Western Front a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Sergt. G. Hilton. Sco: Gds. 8th. April 1898) b) Queen´s Sudan 1896-98 (9539 Sgt. G. Hilton. 12/ Bn: Sud: R.) c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Lieut: G. Hilton, D of C. L.I.) d) Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., two clasps, Jubaland, Somaliland 1901 (2/Lieut. G. Hilton. D of C. L.I.) e) 1914-15 Star (Capt. G. Hilton. D.C.M. K.O. Sco. Bord.) f) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major G. Hilton) g) Khedive´s Sudan 1896-1908, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, unnamed, minor contact marks, generally good very fine, with the related miniature awards, the 1914-15 Star a 1914 Star (8) Estimate £ 5,500-6,500 D.C.M. London Gazette 15.11.1898 Sergeant G. Hilton, Scots Guards, employed with Egyptian Army. M.I.D. London Gazette 25.5.1898 Sergeant Hilton (wounded), Egyptian Army M.I.D. London Gazette 22.6.1915 Hilton, Captain G., 2nd Battalion, King´s Own Scottish Borderers M.I.D. London Gazette 1.1.1916 Hilton, Brevet Major G., King´s Own Scottish Borderers Major George Hilton, D.C.M., born November 1872; enlisted in the Scots Guards, April 1892; served during the Sudanese Campaign whilst attached to the Sudanese Regiment, Egyptian Army; present at the Battles of the Atbara, 8.4.1898 (wounded, Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the D.C.M.) and Khartoum, 2.9.1898; served with his parent Regiment in South Africa, and present at the Advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, 23.11.1899; Enslin; Modder River, 28.11.1899; and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, including the actions at Poplar Grove; Driefontein, 10.3.1900; Vet River; and Zand River; Commisisoned Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall´s Light Infantry, 23.5.1900, and present with the Regiment in the Transvaal, including the actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria; Served in Somaliland, 17.1- 11.10.1901, and took part in operations against the Ogaden Somalis in Jubaland under the command of Colonel T.P.B. Ternan, January to April 1901; and the operations against the Mullah Muhammed-bin-Abdullah in Somaliland under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel E.J.E. Swayne, May to July 1901; Lieutenant, 1.1.1904; Appointed Adjutant, Volunteer Battalion (later Territorial Force), 9.6.1906- 31.12.1909; transferred as Captain, King´s Own Scottish Borderers, 17.4.1909; Served during the Great War on the Western Front with the King´s Own Scottish Borderers, 7.12.1914- 27.4.1915 and 25.5- 10.7.1916 (twice wounded); awarded Brevet of Major, 3.6.1915; served as General Staff Officer, 25.9.1915- 13.5.1916; Brigade Major, 18.5-20.6.1916 and 1.11.1916- 12.6.1917; Major, 4.12.1916; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office, 13.6.1917- 3.2.1918; Employed by the Air Board (Later Air Ministry) from 4.2.1918; retired, 7.9.1921. Two D.C.M.s were awarded to the Scots Guards for the Sudanese Campaign; one for the Atbara (Hilton´s), and one for Khartoum.

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