Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain Hugh Frederic North, 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, killed in action at the battle of Umm-el-Hanna, 21 January 1916

1914-15 Star (Capt., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) in fitted leather case, extremely fine (3)
£400-500

Hugh Frederic North was born in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, on 23 August 1887. Educated at Summerfields, Oxford and Wellington College, where he was in the college shooting eight, he joined the 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (Territorials) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 25 March 1910 and was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1911. Placed on the reserve of Officers, he was then employed in North Rhodesia for three years, serving in the Surveyor’s Department of the B.S.A. Company and latterly as an Assistant Native Commissioner. With the outbreak of war, he returned home and rejoined his old battalion, being gazetted a Temporary Captain in December 1914. He was sent with the 2nd/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment to Quetta, India, going from there to Mesopotamia in October 1915. Captain North was killed in action on 21 January 1916 at the battle of Umm-el-Hanna, being killed by shrapnel whilst leading his men in an attack on Turkish trenches. Sold with a number of copied service papers and other copied research.