Auction Catalogue

27 June 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 510

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£3,800

The Boer War medal to Lieutenant C. H. Hinton, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action during the advance on Ladysmith

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902
, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Lieut. C. H. Hinton, 2/E. Surr. Rgt.) together with a plated half-pint tankard inscribed ‘Barrel Pier Competition, Corporal C. H. Hinton, Gymkhana Meeting, R.M. College, June 1892’, extremely fine (2) £1200-1400

Lieutenant C. H. Hinton was killed in action on 23 February 1900, in the operations on the Tugela during the advance on Ladysmith.

Claude Harrington Hinton was born in April 1873 and educated at Clifton College. He entered the East Surrey Regiment in February 1893, being promoted Lieutenant in November 1894, and embarked for South Africa in October 1899. He was present at all the actions of his brigade, including those at Willow Grange, Venter’s Spruit, and Vaal Krantz. During the fourteen days between 13th and 27th February the East Surreys, like the rest of the brigade, were constantly fighting, losing Lieutenant Hinton and 27 men killed, besides 6 officers and 86 men wounded. Sold with an original but tatty issue of
The Graphic which contains a portrait photograph of Hinton.