A SUPERB "HAND TO HAND COMBAT" MILITARY CROSS & PAIR
With earlier Mention in Dispatches.

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Private - 2/Lt W. FARRIMOND 1/28th London Regt (1st Artists Rifles)
& 8th & 15th ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGt.
From Wigan Lancs. Studied theology prior to WW1. Upon discharge he became a Christian missionary in India and was later ordained as a Church of England Vicar in England.


[MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES. 18.4.1918]
Mentioned in a dispatch by General Sir H.C.O. Plumer when only a Temporary 2nd Lt..
(This is the original M.I.D. Certificate)



[CITATION] London Gazette 15th October 1918
Military Cross:
"He brilliantly executed a raid on the enemy's trenches, his party killing every one of the enemy they met and he himself accounting for some. He showed great determination and skill and his daring inspired his party with the utmost confidence.

[ENTRY IN BATTALION HISTORY]
(On 18th-20th July 1918) 2nd Lt W. Farrimond and 23 other ranks carried through a successful raid on the enemy trenches. Zero hour was set for 1:30am but the party moved into No Man's Land an hour before. At zero hour the barrage opened on the enemy trench and lifted at zero plus one minute,when the party entered the trench.

They bombed 14 occupied shelters, destroyed two machine guns and brought back one prisoner for identification purposes, and one machine gun. They returned at 2:00am having had only two men slightly wounded.

[BIOGRAPHY]
William FARRIMOND was born on 29th October 1890 in Wigan, Lancashire. His family was a very old Wigan family with records back to the 1600's. His father was a well known contractor living at 10 Holme Terrace, Swinley Lane, Wigan. Before the outbreak of WW1 he had been a theological student at St Boniface College. His son, also William Farrimond, later became a famous English cricket player who held several records in the 1930's After a most illustrious Army career during the Great War where he rose through the ranks from a humble private to a commissioned officer at the final rank of Major. He won an early mention in despatches & was decorated with a Military Cross.

After discharge he went to Assam India where he practiced as a Christian missionary. Upon his return to the UK he was ordained in Wakefield in 1922 into the Church of England and served in Helptonstall and York. He later served as the vicar of St James Church in Halifax from 1932 until his early death at only 45 on 19th May 1936. He never married.

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