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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 87

Seven: Colonel A.P. Crawley, 60th Foot, Grenadier Guards and Imperial Yeomanry.
South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (2nd Lt 3/60th Foot.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (Lieut: 3/Grenr Gds); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal South Africa 1901 (Colonel Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Col. A.P. Crawley); British War and Victory Medals (Col.); Khedive's Star 1884-6 suspension re-affixed to last, nearly very fine or better (7)

Colonel Archer Parry Crawley born 1857, commissioned into the 107th Foot from the Militia as 2nd Lieutenant October 1877 and transferred to the 60th Foot in May 1878. He served until the 3rd Battalion of his regiment in the Zulu war of 1879 and took part in the action of Gingindhlovu and the relief of Ekowe. Advanced to Lieutenant, April 1880, Crawley transferred to the Grenadier Guards in September of that year and served with the 3rd Battalion at Suakin in the Sudan campaign and rose to Captain 1888 and Major 1893. He retired for the Guards and later proceeded to South Africa on active service 1899-1901, where he commanded 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry which comprised 23rd Lancashire, 24th Westmoreland and Cumberland and the 77th Manchester Companies (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 8.2.1901 and 10.9.1901); was promoted Colonel, Reserve of Officer 1900. Colonel Crawley was re-employed in the Great War on Staff as Commandant, Lines of Communication (Deputy Assistant Adjutant General), variously in France and Belgium from 19.2.1915 to 1917.

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