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Capt. Horace Wallace Ashton MC.
British Army Durham Light Infantry
from:High Lane, Cheshire
My father, Horace Ashton married Catherine Watt Gilstin of Sunderland, Co. Durham (now Wearmouth) at High Lane. He volunteered for the Army in 1939 and rose to the rank of Captain. He was a proud and private man and although he talked about the Army as he grew older, we the family never really knew why he was awarded the MC. besides several other medals.
He had three children and became an Overall Manufacturer mainly for the Ministry of Defence. He was a founder member of High Lane British Legion and died in the late 1990's.
I am now 72 and am anxious to find what he was awarded the M.C for, I have a copy of a letter King George sent him from Buckingham Palace but nothing more.

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