Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 228

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£360

Three: Private C. L. Crisfield, 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 15 July 1916

1914-15 Star (Stk.-932 L. Cpl., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Stk.-932 Pte., R. Fus.), with card forwarding box for the first, and related Memorial Plaque (Campbell Lea Crisfield), extremely fine (4) £200-250

Campbell Lea Crisfield, who was born in Wandsworth, London and enlisted at Surbiton, was killed in action on the Somme on 15 July 1916, while serving in ‘D’ Company of the 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

The Battalion had moved to the Somme from the Arras sector a week earlier, first going into the front line near La Boiselle, and on 15 July it participated in the attack on Pozieres.

Crisfield was interred in the Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle.