Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private C. L. Crisfield, 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 15 July 1916

1914-15 Star (Stk.-932 L. Cpl., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Stk.-932 Pte., R. Fus.), with card forwarding box for the first, and related Memorial Plaque (Campbell Lea Crisfield), extremely fine (4) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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Campbell Lea Crisfield, who was born in Wandsworth, London and enlisted at Surbiton, was killed in action on the Somme on 15 July 1916, while serving in ‘D’ Company of the 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

The Battalion had moved to the Somme from the Arras sector a week earlier, first going into the front line near La Boiselle, and on 15 July it participated in the attack on Pozieres.

Crisfield was interred in the Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle.