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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 658

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. Wighton, Royal Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, top riband bar adapted for mounting; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Capt: E. J. Wighton, R.G.A.); China 1900, no clasp (Capt: E. J. Wighton. 62/Co: R.G.A.); 1914 Star, clasp (Capt. E. Wighton. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. Col. E. Wighton.), very fine (6)

D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916.

Edward John Wighton was born in Newfoundland in 1876 and served during the Great War in France from 27 September 1914 and is further mentioned in Morland – Great War Corps Commander: War Diaries & Letters, 1914-1918. He died on 25 July 1953 at Dover, Kent.

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