Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant H. S. Middleton, Lincolnshire Regiment, late Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (33096, Pte. H. S. Middleton. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. H. S. Middleton.); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fifth Class breast badge, by Lattes, Cairo, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, scratch marks to reverse of Star, nearly very fine (4) £220-£260

Herbert Shelton Middleton was born in 1891 at Stamford, Lincolnshire. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War in the Egyptian Theatre from 27 July 1916 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Lincolnshire Regiment on 29 August 1917. Serving with the 6th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, he was subsequently attached to the 1st Reserve Garrison Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and relinquished his commission on 1 September 1921, retaining the rank of Lieutenant.

Order of the Nile not confirmed.

Sold together with an “Active Service” New Testament 1917, inscribed by hand inside the front end leaf ‘To my godson. A memento of the Great War from the Rev: H. W. Kingsley. Chaplain to the Forces.’