Karenni (Burma) Expedition Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award for his actions on January 1, 1889 near Lwekaw, Burma (now Myanmar). Born near Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, he served as a surgeon in the Bombay Medical Service of the British Indian Army. Later, he achieved the rank of colonel and served in the Indian Medical Service and received the Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire award in 1901. He died in Wells, Somerset, England at the age of 85. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On 1 January 1889, in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, Burma (now Myanmar), a lieutenant and four men charged into a large body of the enemy and two men were wounded. Surgeon John Crimmin attended one of them under enemy fire and he then joined the firing line and helped in driving the enemy from small clumps of trees where they had taken shelter. Later while Surgeon Crimmin was attending a wounded man several of the enemy rushed out at him. He thrust his sword through one of them, attacked a second and a third dropped from the fire of a sepoy. The remainder fled."
Karenni (Burma) Expedition Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award for his actions on January 1, 1889 near Lwekaw, Burma (now Myanmar). Born near Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, he served as a surgeon in the Bombay Medical Service of the British Indian Army. Later, he achieved the rank of colonel and served in the Indian Medical Service and received the Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire award in 1901. He died in Wells, Somerset, England at the age of 85. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On 1 January 1889, in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, Burma (now Myanmar), a lieutenant and four men charged into a large body of the enemy and two men were wounded. Surgeon John Crimmin attended one of them under enemy fire and he then joined the firing line and helped in driving the enemy from small clumps of trees where they had taken shelter. Later while Surgeon Crimmin was attending a wounded man several of the enemy rushed out at him. He thrust his sword through one of them, attacked a second and a third dropped from the fire of a sepoy. The remainder fled."
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