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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 280

A Great War Officer Casualty Group of Five to Second Lieutenant E.H. Charlton, East Yorkshire Regiment, Late Lance-Corporal, Yorkshire Hussars, Killed in Action During the German Spring Offensive, March 1918
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26765 Pte. E.H. Charlton. 9th Coy. Imp: Yeo:), last two clasps loose on riband, as issued; 1914-15 Star (2691 L-Cpl. E.H. Charlton, York. Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E.H. Charlton.); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal for South Africa 1901-02, 3rd Battalion (26765 Pte. E.H. Charlton.), naming on last double-struck in places, generally very fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Ernest Henry Charlton) and Parchment Memorial Scroll, and the following related items:
- East Yorkshire Regiment Cap Badge
- Photograph of recipient in uniform
- Original typed Enclosure for Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal (lot)

Second Lieutenant Ernest Henry Charlton, born Beverley, Yorkshire, 1879; educated Central High School Hull; enlisted, aged 18, 1st (Territorial Force) Battalion, East Yorkshire Yeomanry; served during the Boer War with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry; discharged 30.8.1902; with the outbreak of the Great War re-enlisted as a Private, Yorkshire Hussars, 2.10.1914; served with the regiment on the Western Front from 27.2.1915; Lance-Corporal March 1917; nominated for a commission by the Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment Territorial Association; completed officer training, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 30.10.1917; he was killed in action, at the end of March 1918, as part of the German spring offensive; he is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

Recipient's MIC at variance with CWGC reference over killed in action date, the former gives '25.3.1918' whilst the latter gives '31.3.1918'.

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