Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of nine to Major E. J. Upton, Royal Sussex Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (7318 Sjt., 2/R. Suss. R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (L-7318 Sjt., R. Suss. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), Victory renamed; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, dated, ‘1947’, mounted for display; together with Army Rifle Association Medal, 1 clasp, 1929 (Capt. E. J. Upton, Meerut, 1929’, bronze and enamel, with buckle on ribbon, good very fine and better (10) £450-550

M.M. London Gazette 11 October 1916.

Edward James Upton was born on 1 January 1885 and enlisted as a Private in the Royal Sussex Regiment in January 1903. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 August 1914. Awarded the Military Medal for bravery, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment in November 1915. Promoted Lieutenant in July 1917 and Captain in June 1928, he retired from the Army in 1930. Service in the Territorial Army followed; becoming Quartermaster (Captain, Retired) with the 4th Royal Sussex Regiment (T.A.) in 1932; promoted Major (& Q.M.) in 1933. With the 4th Sussex Regiment he served in France and Belgium during 1940 and was evacuated from Dunkirk; thereafter his war service was restricted to England. Awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1947, he retired from the service the same year. Sold with copied m.i.c. and other research, together with a group photograph which includes the recipient.