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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1910–1940)}}<br />
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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
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| country = England<br />
| full_name = Charles Talbot Orton<br />
| birth_date = 9 August 1910<br />
| birth_place = [[Farnham]], Surrey, England<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1940|5|28|1910|8|9}}<br />
| death_place = near [[Wormhout]], [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]], France<br />
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| death_cause = [[Execution by gunshot]]<br />
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| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = [[Slow left-arm orthodox]]<br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = 1938/39<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 4<br />
| runs1 = 55<br />
| bat avg1 = 27.50<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0<br />
| top score1 = 22[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = 466<br />
| wickets1 = 12<br />
| bowl avg1 = 26.50<br />
| fivefor1 = 1<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 7/51<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–<br />
| date = 15 January<br />
| year = 2019<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/18254.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''Charles Talbot Orton''' (9 August 1910 – 28 May 1940) was an English first-class cricketer and [[British Army]] officer. Serving in the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]], Orton played first-class cricket in both England and [[British India]]. He served in the early stages of the [[Second World War]], and was likely a victim of the [[Wormhoudt massacre]] in May 1940.<br />
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==Early life and military career==<br />
Orton was born at [[Farnham]] to Major-general [[Sir Ernest Orton]] and his wife Lady Orton.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |pages=17–18 |volume=2nd volume |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at [[Tonbridge School]], and after completing his education decided to follow in his fathers footsteps by joining the [[British Army]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He graduated from the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Sandhurst]] in August 1931 and was commissioned into the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33748|date=28 August 1931|page=5623}}</ref> He made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[British Army cricket team]] in 1937 against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14246/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Orton |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=17 January 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Besides representing the army, he also played cricket for [[Aldershot Command]], [[Catterick Garrison]] and the Yellowhammers.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in August 1934.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34082|date=28 August 1934|page=5461}}</ref> He later married Margaret Stewart Rigg of [[Iverna Court, Kensington]].<ref name="BOOK"/><br />
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Orton was subsequently posted to [[British India]],<ref name="BOOK"/> where he played two first-class matches for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] in November 1938, against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] and the [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] at [[Brabourne Stadium|Bombay]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref name="FCM"/> He in the match against the Muslims, Orton took a [[five wicket haul]] in the Muslims first-innings, with figures of 7/51; however, it was not enough to stop to the Muslims winning the match by 97 runs.<ref name="BOOK"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16846.html |title=Europeans v Muslims, Bombay Pentangular Tournament 1938/39 (Semi-final) |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=17 January 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Returning to England, he was promoted to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] just days before the beginning of the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34660|date=29 August 1939|page=5916}}</ref><br />
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==Second World War and death==<br />
Orton was posted to France in September 1939,<ref name="BOOK"/> where he served during the [[Battle of France]] with the second battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in May 1940 the battalion formed part of the rearguard stalling the German advance on [[Dunkirk evacuation|Dunkirk]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Holding the line on the [[Battle of the Ypres–Comines Canal|Comines Canal]] and the [[Scheldt|Escaut]], the battalion was eventually overrun and forced to surrender on 28 May.<ref name="BOOK"/> Taken prisoner, Orton along with men from the [[Cheshire Regiment]], [[Royal Artillery]] and the French Army, were taken to a barn outside [[Wormhout]].<ref name="BOOK"/> It was here on the same day that 80 men, including Orton, [[Wormhoudt massacre|were massacred]] by soldiers from the [[1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler|2nd Battalion, ''Leibstandarte'' SS Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He is buried at the [[Dozinghem Military Cemetery]].<ref name="BOOK"/><br />
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