British War Medal 1914-20 : Private R W Crozier, 6 Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF

British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

930 Private Richard Walter Crozier, a 23 year old farmer from Culcairn, NSW, enlisted in the 5th Reinforcements to 6 Light Horse Regiment, AIF, on 18 January 1915. After training in Australia he sailed for Egypt aboard HMAT A41Forty-One on 12 May 1915. He served on Gallipoli and then in Egypt before being killed in action at the Battle of Romani near the border of Egypt and Palestine, on 4 August 1916. He is buried at the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt. His brother, Sydney James Crozier, also of 6 Light Horse Regiment, died of wounds near Amman, Palestine, while a prisoner of war of the Turks, in March 1918.