Original British WWI Personal Album of Lt. Colonel George Rowlandson Crosfield

Original Items: One-of-a-kind Set A wonderful, if unprepossessing, album of letters, photographs, cuttings and ephemera belonging to the First World War Officer Lieutenant Colonel George Rowlandson Crosfield CBE, DSO, (1877-1962). He was a founding father of the Royal British Legion, and great friend of Earl Haig, born April 29th 1877, educated at Harrow School, alongside Winston Churchill. Commanded 77th Company Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War for which he received the Queen's Medals with five battle honors. Crosfield crossed to France in February 1915 as second in command of the 14th South Lancashire Regiment and subsequently commanded the 2nd Suffolk and the RWF in the field. There he lost a leg by amputation as a result of a bomb attack along the front line at St. Eloi in March 1916, and later was Commissioned in the RAF becoming an observer in 1918. He remained a member of the volunteer forces between the wars working as Deputy Chairman of the family firm J. Crosfield &