Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. S. Hilton. Midd’x R.) good very fine £120-£160

Clarence Stuart Hilton was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.