Pair: Second Lieutenant D. D. D. Crawford, Royal Engineers, attached 25th Railway Company, Sappers and Miners, Indian State Forces, who died in East Africa, 10 December 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) B.W.M. officially re-impressed, extremely fine (2)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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Lieutenant Daniel David Dunlop Crawford, Royal Engineers, attached 25th Railway Company, Sappers and Miners, Indian State Forces, died in East Africa on 10 December 1917. He was buried in the Dar-es-Salaam War Cemetery.

Notes with the lot state he served in the Glasgow University O.T.C., 1909-13. At the outbreak of the war he was working in East Africa as an Assistant Engineer for the Uganda Railway. Credited with service in the Nairobi Defence Force as Private 10076. In March 1916 he returned to England and was appointed a Private in the Cameron Highlanders in July 1916. He received a temporary commission in the Royal Engineers on 18 August 1916. Some time later he returned to East Africa and ‘died of wounds accidentally received’ on 10 December 1917. There is a notation on his m.i.c. (not included) of a British War Medal being returned to the Royal Mint by the Colonial Office in September 1922.