HOW A SURGEON WON THE VICTORIA CROSS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2719, 14 December 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW A SURGEON WON THE VICTORIA CROSS.

Tub English Gazette announces that tlio Queen has been ploased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross lipon Surgeon John Crimmin, of the Bombay Medical Service, whose claim has been submitted to Her Majesty's approval, for his conspicuous bravery in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, Burma, on January 1, 1889, iis recorded against his name. The following is the act of bravery for which hn is recommended:—Lieutenant Tighe, 27th Bombay Infantry (to the mounted Infantry of which corps Surgeon Crimmin was attached) stated that in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni on January Ist four men charged with him into tho midst of a large body of tho enetnv, who were moving off from the Karen left flank, and two men were badly wounded. He saw Surgeon Criinmiu attending one of the meu about two hundred yards to the rear. Karens were around the party iu every direction, and lie saw several fire at Crimmin and the wounded man. A Sepoy then galloped up to Surgeon Crimmin, and the latter joined the fighting line which then came up. Lieutenant Tighe further states that very shortly afterwards they were engaged in driving the enemy from small clumps of trees and bamboo, in which the Karens took shelter. Near one of these clumps he saw Surgeon Crimmin attending a wounded man. Several Karens rushed at him. Surgeon Crimmin thrust his sword through one of them and attacked a second, a third Karen then dropped from the fire of a Sepoy, upon which the remaining Karen fled.