Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Colonel H. G. Sutton, 21st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, late 27th Madras Native Infantry and Bedfordshire Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut., 27th Madras Infy.) suspension claw loose; 1914-15 Star (Bt. Col.); British War and Victory Medals (Bt. Col.) good very fine (4) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 14 June 1918.

Henry George Sutton was born on 26 May 1860, and originally commissioned into the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1879. He transferred into the Madras Army in 1881 and, at the time of his services in Burma, was acting as Quarter-Master to the 27th Native Infantry. By 1909, after several regimental transfers, he became unattached. Re-employed in May 1915 as a temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Sutton saw service in France until the following August with the London Regiment. In January 1916 he assumed command of the 21st Battalion of The Rifle Brigade, departing for Egypt that month, a theatre in which he served until September 1918.