A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Pair: Private E. I. Hanton, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 December 1917

British War and Victory Medals (G-21878 Pte. E. I. Hanson. E. Kent R.); Memorial Plaque (Ernest Isaac Hanton); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Ernest Isaac Hanton E. Kent Regt.’, all mounted along with a photograph of the recipient in a glazed display frame, good very fine (4) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Ernest Isaac Hanton was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and attested there for the 9th Kent Yeomanry Cyclist Regiment Transferring to the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), he served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 7 December 1917. His Commanding Officer wrote:
‘I regret to say that Private Hanton, of “C” Company, was killed on the night of 6-7 December. The only details available are that a shell pitched right in the trench, killed two men, including Private Hanton, and wounded three others. Death must have been instantaneous, and he can have suffered no pain. We took his body down to Battalion Headquarters for a decent burial. He went all through the big push, and it is hard luck that he should have been killed after it.’

Hanton is buried in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France. He was just 19 years of age.

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