FIELD Christopher Norman Cromwell
Major, Tank Corps, WW1
unknown service WW2
16758 Legion of Frontiersmen, England

CITATION
Military Cross
Gazetted 22 July 1918, p2537
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his Tank ran out of petrol during an attack he went forward on foot under heavy machine gun fire, rallied the crews of Tanks that had ibeen hit, and supervised the collection of the wounded. His cheerfulness and contempt of danger had a most encouraging effect on all ranks.


KNOWN AWARDS
Military Cross (MC)
1914-15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
War Medal 1939-45

NOTES
Born 30 November 1892 England
Died 19 July 1959 Prospect Park Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, England
Buried Cholsey, England

BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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