Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. P. Hatton, East Kent Regiment

1914 Star (L-8252 Pte., 1/E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-9252 Pte., E. Kent R.); together with a renamed Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (4792 W. P. Hatton, Essex Regt.) very fine and better (4) £160-200

William Patrick Hatton was born in Colchester, Essex and lived and enlisted at Dublin, Ireland. Serving with the 1st Battalion East Kent Regiment, he died of wounds, France/Flanders, on 23 October 1914. He was buried in Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire.