A Senior Warrant Officer & Scottish 'Headmaster' from Patriotic Family, Great War campaign medal group of 3: Company Quarter Master Sergeant William Palmerston Crichton, 6th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers

- 1914-15 Star (8034 C.Q.M.Sjt. W.P. Crichton. K.O.Sco:Bord:)
- British War Medal. Silver issue (8034 W.O.CL.2. W.P. Crichton. K.O.Sco.Bord.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (8034 W.O.CL.2. W.P. Crichton. K.O.Sco.Bord.)

Wounded in Action: No. 8034 C.Q.M.S. Crichton of 6/KOSB is shown as 'Wounded' in a list of 'Northern Casualties' published in the Newcastle Daily Journal issue of, 30 October 1915.

Medals Verification: Company Quartermaster Sergeant Crichton is confirmed having been entitled to all of the three Great War campaign medals here offered, and was also additionally awarded a Silver War Badge per the respective medal and SWB rolls cited below:

a). 1914-15 Star: Reference WO 329/2699. Medal roll of 6.K.O.S.B. shows disembarkation date (France) 12/05/15
b). British War Medal. Silver issue: Reference WO 329/1112 shows service with 6/KOSB
c). Interallied Victory Medal: Reference WO 329/1112 shows service with 6/KOSB
d). Silver War Badge (No. 166240): WO 329/3030 shows enlisted 12/09/1914, discharge 24/02/16

A lengthy article titled 'NEW HEADMASTER FOR ARBILOT SCHOOL' pertainjng to the recipient's appointment as a Headmaster was published in the 'Arbroath Gide' newspaper issue of, 20 May 1916, from which we are quoting in part only:

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Mr Crichton is at present headmaster of Hightae Public School under the Lochmaben School Board, and this post he has held for almost five years. He is a certificated teacher of the first class and a graduate in arts of Edinburgh University. He served as a pupil teacher in Edinburgh, was trained at the Training College there, and has had experience of teaching in various schools in Edinburgh, Lochmaben and Aberfeldy. He has also had experience in continuation class work, and his work in both day and evening class has always received the most favourable reports from the H.M. Inspector. He was recognised by the Education Department as specially qualified to teach woodwork, school gardening, music, physical and military drill, geometry and mensuration. Although wounded in France and invalided out of the Army he is in no way incapacitated from duty. He was on the short list for Friockheim School just before he entered the Army. A number of excellent testimonials were submitted to the Board.

Mr Crichton comes of a military family. His grandfather was a colour-sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and was one of the famous Thin Red Line; his grandmother was one of the nurses with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War; and his father was born on board the troopship Palmerston in Sebastopol, and was two years old on returning from the Crimea. Mr Crichton when in Edinburgh was connected with the Queen's Edinburgh Rifles, holding the rank of sergeant for eight years. He took the Hythe Musketry Certificate in 1908, the Leith Fort Machine Gun Certificate (distinguished) in 1909, the Enfield Small Arms Certificate in 1910, and in the same year was promoted Armourer-Sergeant. For several years he attended the Edinburgh and Bisley rifle meeting, and figured prominently in the competitions. In September 1914 he joined the 6th K.O.S.B., in which he was promoted C.Q.M.S., and later sergeant-major. He spent five months in France, and was wounded in the leg leaving France after the battle of Loos. Mr Crichton was mentioned in despatches, and later invalided out of the service, after which he resumed teaching at Hightae School. It may also be mentioned that Mrs Crichton who is the daughter of a farmer in the parish of Lochmaben, has six brothers serving with His Majesty's forces.

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Presumably the MID referred to above, was a 'B-List' mention

William Palmerston Crichton, died at Essie, Scotland on, 24 July 1920. At the time of his death he was 32 years of age. His life is commemorated on a family memorial headstone located at Dryfesdale Cemetery, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

The medals in choice near virtually pristine condition

Condition: About EF

Code: 24562