Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Captain E. F. Dalton, Audit Staff, late Financial Advisers Staff, Egypt

1914-15 Star (E. F. Dalton); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. F. Dalton) good very fine, scarce (3) £100-140

Having been a Civil Service Clerk of the Second Division for eight years, Mr Frederick Dalton was promoted to Second Class Assistant Accountant in the Army Accounts Department (ref. London Gazette 22 May 1908). As such, in May 1915 he went with his wife to Egypt, aboard the S.S. Medina. As part of the Egypt Expeditionary Force, he was part of the tiny ‘Financial Advisers Staff’ based in Cairo - his star qualifying date being 11 May 1915. He later served as a Captain in the Audit Staff. His m.i.c. records his address as ‘General Headquarters, Egypt’. With copied m.i.c. and gazette extract.