1914-15 Star (2.LIEUT:C.R.D.PULLING. K.R.RIF:C.); British War Medal (LIEUT.C.R.D.PULLING); Victory Medal (LIEUT.C.R.D.PULLING); 1935 Jubilee Medal; 1937 Coronation Medal; 1953 Coronation Medal - all unnamed as awarded. All with original boxes of issue
Christopher Robert Druce Pulling 5/7th Bn K.R.R.C. was born on 26.8.1893 in Exeter. He was a Barrister by profession and was educated at Winchester College from 1907-1912 and then to Trinity College, Cambridge where he read Law earning a B.A. in 1915. He was Commissioned in 1914 as a 2/Lt. in the 5th (Special Reserve) Bn of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was subsequently posted to the 7th (Service) Bn and promoted Lieutenant in 1917. He was posted to France on 5.8.1915 but returned to the UK on 30.11.1915 where he was based at the Home Office. He lost the top joints of his first two toes of his right foot to Frostbite whilst on active service.
He was the author of Eccles Entertainers (1924) and Victorian Lays Revisited (1935) and was based in the Office of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police from 1919
1935 Jubilee Medal as Senior Assistant Secretary (Metropolitan Police); 1937 Coronation Medal as Assistant Secretary (Metropolitan Police); 1953 Coronation Medal as Senior Assistant Secretary (Metropolitan Police)
According to the 1939 Register he was Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Police, living at 1B, Camp View, Wimbledon.
He passed away on 24.5.1972 in Sussex.
