The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain H. P. Hilton, Middlesex Regiment, who served with Roberts Horse in South Africa during the Boer War, and was killed in action on the Western Front in February 1915

1914-15 Star (Capt. H. P. Hilton. Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. P. Hilton.) good very fine (3) £80-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Herbert Philip Hilton served in South Africa during the Boer War with Roberts Horse, where he was present at the action at Sannah’s post, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 19 May 1900. He was promoted Lieutenant on 12 October 1901, and Captain on 16 January 1906, and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from the date of their arrival on 18 January 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres in February 1915, in the Battalion’s first serious engagement of the War (the date of his death is somewhat uncertain- the Regimental history gives it as 10 February; the C.W.G.C. Roll of Honour as 14 February, and The Cross of Sacrifice as 16 February). Hilton has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.