Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major R. D. Crew, 12th Frontier Force, Indian Army

1914-15 Star (Lt. R. D. Crew, 52 Sikhs F.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. R. D. Crew.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Major R. D. Crew.) good very fine (3) £70-£90

Robert Douglas Crew was born in Bristol on 10 August 1890 and was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 January 1910, and arrived in India on 3 March of that year. Posted to the 52nd Sikhs, he was promoted Lieutenant on 29 April 1912 and served during the Great War in Egypt from November 1914 to August 1915 as a Company Officer attached to the 33rd Punjabis and Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding 32nd Brigade. Promoted Captain on 1 September 1915, he saw further service on the Western Front as Machine Gun Officer, Bareilly Brigade, from August to December 1915, and then Egypt and Aden for the rest of the War as Company Commander and Adjutant, attached variously to the 33rd Punjabis, 15th Sikhs, and 53rd Sikhs.

Crew was appointed a Temporary Major at the Imperial School of Instruction, Zaitun, in September 1918, and was confirmed Major in the 2nd/12th Frontier Force Regiment (as the 52nd Sikhs had been re-numbered), on 20 January 1926. He was Officiating Second in Charge, 2/12th, Frontier Force Regiment, from 1929 to 1932, and retired on 22 February 1933.

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