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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 275

(x) British War Medal 1914-20 (3012 Pte. E. N. Hutton. 16 Bn. A.I.F.), very fine

Ernest Norman Hutton was born at Adelaide and enlisted at Keswick, South Australia, on 14 June 1915. He served with the 16th Battalion at Gallipoli, before transferring to the 48th Battalion on the Western Front on 3 March 1916. He was reported missing on 11 April 1917, later confirmed as having been killed in action by Private J. Pitt, 48th Battalion:

'Two hours or thereabouts, after we entered the enemy's trenches near Bullecourt on 11th April 1917, I saw the above named soldier lying dead in the bay adjoining the one I was occupying. He and several others (whose names I cannot remember) were killed by an enemy trench mortar bomb.'

The son of Stephen and Mary Helen Hutton, of Castle Street, Parkside, South Australia, he is commemorated at Villers-Bretonneux Memorial on the Somme; sold with copied research.


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