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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 606

The M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant B. Dalton, 13th Battalion (4th Hull Pals), East Yorkshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (13-1016 Sjt: B. Dalton. 13/E.York:R.); 1914-15 Star (13-1016 Cpl. B. Balton. E. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13-1016 Sjt. B. Dalton. E. York. R.), polished, contact marks, nearly very fine and scarce (4)

One of only 33 M.M.s awarded to the Battalion.

M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917.

Benjamin Dalton was a native of Hull, Yorkshire and enlisted on 3 December 1914, entering the war with the 1st Battalion on 29 December 1915. Transferring to the 13th (4th Hull Pals) Battalion prior to 1917 he received his M.M. after they had been in action on the Ancre and at the Battle of the Scarpe.

They saw additional action during the Capture of Oppy Wood in late June 1917 and Dalton remained with them until he was discharged on 22 March 1919.

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