The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain W. N. Crosby, Yorkshire Regiment, late Honourable Artillery Company, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (1099 Pte. W. N. Crosby. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. N. Crosby.) all housed in a fitted bronze, velvet-lined and glazed frame bearing the crest of The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, good very fine (4) £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918

M.I.D. London Gazettes 22 May 1917 and 11 December 1917.

William Noel Crosby enlisted into the Honourable Artillery Company on 8 August 1914 and served with them as a Private during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 September 1914. Commissioned into the 12th Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, he saw further service with them, being twice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Military Cross before being demobilised in 1919, his home address being at ‘Lightwoods’, Highfield, Egglescliffe, County Durham. He is mentioned in the Booklet, A Brief Account of Egglescliffe Men who served in the Great War; which notes that he was Mentioned in Despatches on three occasions (although only two Mentions have been traced) in addition to being awarded the M.C.

Sold with a War Office notification letter regarding the award of the Military Cross.