Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Trmptr: R. W. Bowen, Natal Mtd. Rifles.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. S. O. Hatton.) the first abrasively cleaned, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine; the second extremely fine (2) £120-£160

Sydney Osborne Hatton was born in Saidpur, Bengal, India, on 21 March 1893 and served with the 117th Mahratta Light Infantry during the Great War in India (not entitled to a Victory Medal). Subsequently emigrating to Canada as a Mining Engineer, he died in Calgary, Alberta, on 22 May 1953.

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