Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. J. A. Crommelin, Engrs.) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming, small dent to cheek of Queen’s bust, otherwise nearly extremely fine £800-£1,000

Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000.

James Arden Crommelin was born in Calcutta on 2 February 1801, the son of Charles Russell Crommelin, Bengal Civil Service, and was educated at Harrow. An Addiscombe Cadet, 1817-19, he joined the Honourable East India Company’s service as an Ensign in the Bengal Engineers in November 1821, and was promoted Lieutenant in May 1824, seeing active service during the First Burma War (Medal with clasp).

Crommelin was Adjutant from 1823 to 1830, and from May 1828 to April 1829, was in the service of the King of Oudh. He was appointed Executive Engineer of the Dum-Dum Division in October 1833, and became Superintending Engineer of the North West Provinces from March 1841 until his retirement in January 1843. He became Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in November 1854, and died on 30 January 1893.