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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 500

Pair: Private S. G. Bilton, Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry)

British War and Victory Medals (5394 Pte. S. G. Bilton. H.A.C. -Inf-), polish and slight edge bruising, very fine (2)

Stanley Goddard Bilton was born at Stoke Newington, London in 1889, the son of Thomas and Euphemia Bilton. He worked as an Insurance Clerk and served in the Territorial Force with the 26th Middlesex Cyclists from 1908. No longer with this formation by the outbreak of the Great War Bilton enlisted with the Honourable Artillery Company as a Private on 22 November 1915. Joining the 2nd Infantry Battalion he soon entered the war in France on 21 July 1916 being posted o the 1st Battalion.

At this time 1st H.A.C. were part of V Corps, engaged in the Battle of the Somme. The Battalion joined the Naval Division to take part in an attack upon Beaumont Hamel on 13 November 1916. One company was detached to advance upon The Mound to the south and rest aided the Naval Division. Beaumont Hamel fell the next day but with 1st H.A.C. playing a major part in the attack. At some stage during the attack Bilton was wounded, with his records noting only that it occurred between 13-15 November, a shell blast caught him in the left eye, right arm and right thigh. Taken to 49 Casualty Clearing Station and further onto No.1 Australian General Hospital on 16 November.

Returned to Britain on 23 November he remained there until 10 December 1917 when he was discharged; sold together with census data, service papers and M.I.C.

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£55

Starting price
£20