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A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. H. Haughton, 105th Mahratta Light Infantry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Maj. E. J. H. Haughton.) naming obliterated on VM; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (Maj. E. J. H. Haughton, 105/Infy.) second clasp loose on riband, as issued, rank and initials officially corrected; Delhi Durbar 1911, erasures to edge; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful), (Capt. E. J. H. Haughton, 26th May 1916) complete with bronze riband buckle, reverse centre of D.S.O. badly chipped, otherwise very fine (6) £1,000-£1,200

D.S.O. London Gazette 7 February 1918 ‘... for distinguished services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Mesopotamia. Dated 1st January 1918.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917 (Mesopotamia and 12 March 1918 (Mesopotamia).

R.H.S. Bronze Medal: Haughton, E. J. H., Capt., 105 Mahratta L.I. (Case 42564) ‘On the 26th May 1916, a man of the Gurkha Rifles in trying to land from a transport fell into the Shatt-el-Arab. Haughton jumped in and kept him afloat till they were got on board.’

Edward Juxon Henry Haughton was born on 19 January 1883 at Moulmein, Burma, the son of Colonel Thomas Hutchinson Haughton. Educated at Bedford, he entered the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant on 18 January 1902, and served with them through to the following year. Appointed to the Indian Army on 13 November 1903, he served with the Moplah (Modiah) Rifles from 1903 to 1907, being promoted Lieutenant in 1904. He served with the Mahratta Light Infantry between 1907-30. Appointed Captain in 1911, he is known to have played First Class Cricket in India during the 1912/13 and 1914/15 seasons. With his regiment in the Great War, he served in Mesopotamia, leaving for Basra in February 1916. The 105th Mahratta Light Infantry joined the 3rd Lahore Division in September 1916, as part of the 9th Sirhind Brigade, 3rd Lahore Division. They took part in the attempt to relieve Kut el Amarah, and the action at Jabal Hanrin, 25 March 1917. Promoted to Major in January 1917, he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and twice mentioned in despatches for his services during the course of the war. In March 1918 the Division was transferred to Egypt, but Haughton returned to India where he served as Brigade Major, 1st Infantry Brigade, Peshawar Infantry Brigade on the North West Frontier (wounded). Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1926, he retired from the Army on 22 April 1926. He died at Burhill, Hersham, Surrey on 17 November 1955.