Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Farrier Staff Sergeant G. Crick, Royal Horse Artillery

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (66906 Corpl. Shoeing S. G. Crick B. By. R.H.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (66906 Far. St.Sjt. G. Crick. R.H.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (Far.S.Sjt. G. Crick. R.A.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine and better (3) £200-£240

George Crick, a blacksmith, was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, around 1867, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 10 April 1888. Initially sent to “A” Battery Depot, Royal Horse Artillery, he was posted overseas to India and raised Shoeing Smith on 29 July 1891. Returned home to barracks at Aldershot, his Army Service Record notes ‘wounds of head & hands’ in April 1895. Crick was later promoted Corporal Shoeing Smith on 11 August 1897 and served on the North West Frontier Expedition of 1897-98. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1906, he was discharged at Aldershot on 9 April 1912. His reference adds: ‘An excellent farrier possessing a thorough common sense. Thoroughly sober, industrious and reliable.’

Crick later took employment as a publican in the Thingoe and Thedwastre Parish of Bury St. Edmunds. Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal with Annuity per Army Order No. 227 of 1941, he died of acute bronchitis on 11 January 1949.

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