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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 290

Three: Major A. S. Crum, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, later Imperial Yeomanry

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2/Lieut: A. S. Crum. 2/Oxf: L.I.), official corrections to unit; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Capt. A. S. Crum. 18/Impl. Yeo.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Major A. S. Crum.), nearly extremely fine (3)

Alexander Stewart Crum was born on 20 March 1867 and was educated at Eton and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 52nd Foot on 17 September 1887. Advanced Lieutenant on 23 January 1892 he resigned his commission on 24 July 1897. All his service was spent with the 52nd in India and he served in the Burma Campaign, 1891, with the Wunthoo Column (Medal & clasp). In 1900 he was re-employed as Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry, on the Staff of the 18th Battalion (Sharpshooters) until 1902. Returned to the fold during the Great War Crum served as Major, Second-in-Command of the 9th (Service) Battalion and in September 1916 in the same appointment with the 36th Training Reserve Battalion (British War Medal confirmed as sole entitlement as per MIC). A keen pig-sticker when in India, the Major died on on 24 July 1941; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£240