Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Private C. H. Crump, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Charles H. Crump); together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals (M.M. detached), nearly extremely fine (9) £280-320

M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919.

Charles Harold Crump was born in 1896. A Plumber by occupation from Walsall, he enlisted at Darlaston on 23 March 1915. He served as a Stretcher Bearer with 19 C.C.S., ? 1915-November 1916 and with 88th Field Ambulance, November 1916-June 1919. Serving in the 38th Field Ambulance he was awarded the M.M. for bravery in the field. He was transferred to the Reserve on 2 August 1919 and was discharged from the Reserve on 22 March 1935.

Sold with a good collection of original documents, including: recipient’s Discharge Certificate; Character Certificate; Certificate of Employment during the War; letter of congratulations on the award of the M.M. signed by Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Commanding VIII Corps; two photographs; and a 38th Field Ambulance Menu, Xmas 1918, signed by many of the members of the unit.