Career
He also served as the Honorary Physician to Her Majesty The King. He was 29 years old, and a Surgeon in the Bombay Medical Service, Indian Army during the Karen-Ni Expedition, Burma when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. 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.
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. He died at Woodward House, Wells, Somerset, 20 February 1945.