The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

Pair: Dispenser of Medicines W. P. Crompton

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (William P. Crompton), engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, replacement ring suspension, very fine (2) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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William Penn Crompton was born in 1837, the son of Robert Crompton Esq., Surgeon of Munslow, Shropshire. During the Crimea War he served as a Dispenser of Medicines. In 1857 he emigrated to Australia, sailing aboard the S.S. Great Britain. There he married Mary Anne Benson, daughter of John Benson of Castlereagh Street, Sydney, on 9 February 1858. In 1866 he was listed in the Sands Sydney Directory as living at 69 Crown Street, Sydney, employed as a Pawnbroker. Sold with a fine daguerreotype of Crompton in civilian dress wearing the Queen’s Crimea Medal; also with copied research details.