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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 562

Pair: Captain A. C. Crichton, 1st Battalion, North Western Railway Rifles

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar (Capt. A. C. Crichton 1st Bn. N. W. Ry. Voltr. Rfls.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2)

Alexander Clifford Crichton was born on 21 May 1870, son of Charles Edwin Chrichton, an Engineer, a native of Jesmond, Newcastle. Educated at Bedford Grammar from 1881-87, he sailed for Bombay on 14 October 1891 and joined the East Bengal State Railway on 23 January 1895 as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Class III, Grade 4. Crichton was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the East Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps in February 1896. Having risen to Captain by August 1903, he transferred to the North Western Railway Rifles in January 1904 and was a District Locomotive Superintendent at Sukkur in 1905. His 1911 Durbar Medal was issued to that unit, whilst the Decoration followedin May 1915. Retired to Wellington, Somerset, he died on 15 April 1949 at Charing Cross Hospital; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£190

Sale 21003 Notices
Surname reads CRIGHTON not CRICHTON.