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M.C. London Gazette 18.7.1917 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in reorganising and taking command of his Company after all the Officers save one had been killed. His coolness and initiative under very trying circumstances set a splendid example to his men'.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 22.3.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his Company forward to reinforce a Battalion in the front line, and moved about in the open under a heavy bombardment regardless of danger, encouraging his men throughout. He inspired his men with great confidence'.
Captain Eric Swinton Dufton, M.C., first entered the French Theatre of War in late January 1915 as a Private with the 10th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment but was invalided home just over a month later after sustaining a gunshot wound to his right arm in operations near Kemmel. Commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in September 1915, he afterwards transferred to the Camerons, with whom he won his M.C. and Bar.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 22.3.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his Company forward to reinforce a Battalion in the front line, and moved about in the open under a heavy bombardment regardless of danger, encouraging his men throughout. He inspired his men with great confidence'.
Captain Eric Swinton Dufton, M.C., first entered the French Theatre of War in late January 1915 as a Private with the 10th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment but was invalided home just over a month later after sustaining a gunshot wound to his right arm in operations near Kemmel. Commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in September 1915, he afterwards transferred to the Camerons, with whom he won his M.C. and Bar.