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.
[1] Holding the line on the Comines Canal and the Escaut, the battalion was eventually overrun and forced to surrender on 28 May.
[1] Taken prisoner, Orton along with men from the Cheshire Regiment, Royal Artillery and the French Army, were taken to a barn outside Wormhout.
[1] It was here on the same day that 80 men, including Orton, were massacred by soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.