Surgeon, Bombay Medical Service; attached 27th Bombay Infantry
Born: 19 March 1859, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 20 February 1945, Wells, Somerset
Citation: Lieutenant Tighe, 27th Bombay Infantry (to the Mounted Infantry of which Corps Surgeon Crimmin was attached) states that in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, on the 1st January last [1889], four men charged with him into the midst of a large body of the enemy who were moving off from the Karen left flank, and two men fell to the ground wounded. He saw Surgeon Crimmin attending one of the men about 200 yards to the rear. Karens were round the party in every direction, and he saw several fire at Surgeon 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 out 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 Karens fled.[London Gazette issue 25975 dtd 17 Sep 1889, published 17 Sep 1889.]
Notes: At the time of his death, he was Colonel John Crimmin VC CB CIE VD.
Karenni, now known as Kayah State, is a part of southeastern Burma.
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