A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters

Family group to brother and sister:

Pair: Second Lieutenant C. E. Blurton, 1st attached 15th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, killed in action, France/Flanders, 22 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.)

Pair: Nurse I. Blurton, Voluntary Aid Detachment

British War and Victory Medals (I. Blurton, V.A.D.) extremely fine (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Cyril Evers Blurton was born in Nottingham in September 1897, the youngest son of Dr John Frederick Blurton and Phoebe Blurton, of 11 Radcliffe Road, West Bridgeford, Nottingham. He was educated at Waverly School, Nottingham, Sedburgh and Sandhurst Military Academy. Commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters on 27 October 1916, he entered France in December 1916. Serving with the 1st Battalion, he was attached to the 15th Battalion in February 1917. With them he was listed as missing, later revised to killed in action at the Houthulst Forest, 22 October 1917, aged 20 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Sold with copy photograph of recipient.

Isabel Blurton was born in 1892 and was the only daughter of Dr John Frederick Blurton and Phoebe Blurton of Nottingham. Employed as a Nurse, she served at Bowden Hospital, Nottingham, from June 1915 and at a military hospital in France, January-December 1917. It is highly likely that she terminated her V.A.D. work in France on hearing of her brother’s death.

Their brother, Gilbert Blurton (no medals in lot) was a Surgeon Probationer in the R.N.V.R. and was stated to have had a ‘miraculous escape’ at Jutland.

With copied research.