Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. A. Crew, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 May 1915

1914 Star, with clasp (8183 Pte. T. A. Crew. 1/North’n R.); British War and Victory Medals (8183 Pte. T. A. Crew. North’n. R.) with outer OHMS transmission envelopes addressed to ‘Mrs. A. Crew, 10 Bearwood Street, Northampton’; Memorial Plaque (Thomas Albert Crew) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Thomas Albert Crew, Northamptonshire Regt.’, in OHMS transmission tube, similarly addressed, minor edge bruise to BWM, otherwise extremely fine (5) £300-£400

Thomas Albert Crew was born in Saltley, Warwickshire, in 1881 and prior to the Great War served with the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was killed in action on 9 May 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.

Sold together with named Record Office enclosures for the three medals; the recipient’s Third Class and Second Class Certificates of Education; a portrait photograph of the recipient and other postcard photographs; and a silver-plated presentation cup, inscribed ‘Bayonet Fighting Competition 14th Infantry Brigade Curragh, May 1906 won by The 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt., Lance Corporal T. Crew’, with plater’s marks to base.