Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Captain Sir George Craik, Lovat’s Scouts, late Chief Constable in the Metropolitan Police and formerly a Private with the C.I.V. in South Africa

Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Belfast (97 Pte. G. L. Craik, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., 2/Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (Chief Constable G. L. Craik) generally good very fine (6) £1400-1600

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

George Little Craik was born on 10 October 1874, and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1899, but with the outbreak of war joined the 14 Middlesex R.V. (Inns of Court) detachment of the C.I.V. and served with them in South Africa in 1900. He returned to the Transvaal in 1903 as legal adviser to the Chamber of Mines, remaining there until 1909, when he returned to England. In 1910 he was appointed a Chief Constable in the Metropolitan Police, which position he resigned in October 1914 after accepting a commission as a Captain in 2/Lovat’s Scouts. He served as an officer of Lovat’s Scouts for the whole of the war, for the most part in Egypt and at Salonika. Here he was wounded, mentioned in despatches and won the Military Cross. From 1919 he devoted himself to the work of the Commonwealth Trust Ltd., of which he was managing director. He succeeded his father as the 2nd Baronet in 1927, but himself died on 9 July 1929. The Funeral Service took place in Westminster Abbey three days later, Viscount Gladstone, General Sir Neville Lyttelton and General Sir Reginald Wingate being among those present.