Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal J. Dalton, Royal Army Medical Corps, late St. John’s Ambulance Brigade

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (1595 Ordly., St. John Amb. Bde.); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1595 Pte., Oldham Corps); British War Medal 1914-20 (22814 Cpl., R.A.M.C.) very fine and better (3) £350-450

John Dalton served in the Boer War with the Oldham Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. With the onset of the Great War he enlisted at Oldham for service in the R.A.M.C. As a Lance-Corporal he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 8 July 1915. He was killed in action, France/Flanders, 23 April 1917 and was buried in the Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines.

With copied research - additionally awarded the 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal.