Military Cross GV (unnamed as awarded); British War Medal (2.LIEUT. W.CRAMPTON); Victory Medal (2.LIEUT. W.CRAMPTPON); Memorial Plaque (WILLIAM CRAMPTON)
3612/15716 2 Lieutenant William Crampton Born 9.4.1892 in Thorne, Yorkshire initially served with the 2/1 Yorkshire Dragoons and was commissioned from the ranks into the Royal Artillery on 10.6.1917. He was awarded the Military Cross for Special service in September 1918
"Near Epehy on the 21st March 1918, when the battery was firing on open sights on the advancing infantry, and was being subjected to heavy machine gun fire from the front and flanks, this officer took charge of the gun where the machine gun fire was most intense and took his place in the detachment until the fire of the enemy had abated, when he resumed his work as section commander."
"On the 25 March as Forward Observation Officer, he remained all day with the infantry in the frontline throughout all the attacks, and sent back most valuable information to the artillery. Throughout the fighting from the 21st to the 29th March he performed very good work and set a most excellent example to all under him."
Crampton was a Clerk in the employ of Mr George Dunstan of Thorne. Yorkshire.
He dies of illness in France on 17.2.1919 and is buried in the Etaples Miitary Cemetery, Northern France.
