Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant C. C. Egerton, West Riding Regiment, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches, and was killed in action at the battle of Hill 60 on the Western Front on 18 April 1915

1914 Star (Lieut. C. C. Egerton. W. Rid. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. C. Egerton.) good very fine (3) £200-£240

Charles Caledon Egerton was born in India in 1886, the son of Field Marshal Sir Charles Egerton, G.C.B., D.S.O., and was educated at Rugby and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the West Riding Regiment on 15 August 1905, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914, before transferring as a Staff Captain to Headquarters, 13th Infantry Brigade. He was killed in action at the Battle of Hill 60 on 18 April 1915, and is buried in Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Belgium. For his services during the Great War he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 19 October 1914, 17 February 1915, and 22 June 1915).