Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War ‘High Wood’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant W. Crook, 16th (Church Lads Brigade) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action in 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (C.194 Cpl., 16/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (C-194 L. Cpl., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (C-194 Sjt., K. R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine (4) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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William Crook was born and enlisted at Bolton, Lancashire. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 24 September 1917.

The following detail is extracted from the Bolton Journal & Guardian, 12 October 1917: ‘On visiting a friend in another part of the trench he was hit by shrapnel fire, and on being taken to a dug out, died there on 24 September 1917. He enlisted in 1914 and went to France in November 1915 with his battalion. Awarded the Military Medal for rescuing wounded comrades at the Battle of High Wood on 6 July 1916. On the 7th September he was sent home on sick leave, suffering from dysentry and spent six months in hospital, before being posted back to France on 27 July 1917.’