Captain CHARLES TALBOT ORTON
Service Number: 52683
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Date of Death
Died 28 May 1940
Age 29 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Major-General Sir Ernest Frederick Orton, K.C.I.E., C.B., and of Lady Orton (nee Mickleburgh), of Guildford, Surrey; husband of Margaret Stewart (Margot) Orton (nee Rigg), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
- Personal Inscription BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARGOT AND YOUNGER SON OF MAJ. GEN. SIR ERNEST F. ORTON AND OF ALICE HIS WIFE. WOUNDED AT KEMMEL 28.5.1940 AND DIED AT KROMBEKE, BELGIUM. "LIFE IS ETERNAL, LOVE IS IMMORTAL"
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