Auction Catalogue

17 January 2024

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Lot

№ 289

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17 January 2024

Hammer Price:
£320

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant W. J. McCrow, Royal Garrison Artillery, attached Trench Mortar Battery, who died in India in July 1920

Military Medal, G.V.R. (29749 Cpl. W. J. McCrow. R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star 29749 Gnr. W. J. McCrow. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (29749 Sjt. W. J. McCrow. R.A.) good very fine (4) £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 17 April 1917: ‘29749 Cpl. W. J. McCrow, R.G.A., attd. T.M. By.’

William John McCrow died on 23 July 1920, in India whilst serving as a Lance-Sergeant with 10th Medium Battery, R.G.A. He is buried at Peshawar and commemorated by name on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate).