Gazetted: 27 February 1918.
Investiture: Buckingham Palace by King George V, 18 November 1918.
Other Decorations: Croix De Guerre. Medaille Militaire.
Other Medals: 1914-15 Star, BW, VM, DM. Coronation Medal 1937 Coronation Medal 1953
Location of Medals: Not publicly held.
Personal: Christie grew up in London and then lived in the Midlands before moving back to Islington. Prior to the Great War he was a parcels clerk at Euston Station. He played football for St John's Football Club, Holloway and was a keen scholar at Holloway Working Men's Club. He joined the 1/11th Battalion, London Regiment in September 1914 as a Rifleman and went out with them to Gallipoli. He was at Suvla Bay landing on 11 August and was wounded in the head by shrapnel at Chocolate Hill. He was later sent back to Egypt and then to St Bartholomew's in London. Christie rejoined his unit in Palestine in November 1915 where he took part in a hundred mile march across the Arabian Desert and the 1st and 2nd Battles of Gaza, where he suffered severe sunstroke. Christie was wounded in the knee and wrist at Medjelyaba in Palestine in March 1918. While being treated for his wounds in hospital, the Duke of Connaught handed him the VC ribbon at Yezour, near Jaffa. He arrived back in the UK in November 1918 and was decorated with the cross by King George V at the Palace on 18 November 1918. He also received the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. At a civic reception in Islington he was presented with an illuminated address by the Borough Council. On 20 January 1919 a presentation ceremony was held at Euston Station by several LNWR officials. The occasion was to present Christie with a mahogany bureau and a cheque as a token of esteem from the staff.
Another presentation followed on 4 April 1919 at Islington Town Hall. A silver salver was given to Christie. After the war he became a commercial traveller and then went into the catering and wine business. He drove food-aid wagons in London during the General Strike in 1926. Christie also attended the VC dinner in the Royal Gallery at the House of Lords on 9 November 1929. He became northern sales manager for a Norwich based wine merchants and moved to Cheshire, living in Carr Wood Avenue, Bramhall. In 1940 he became a director of Smallmans Ltd., of Heald Grove, Manchester and retired from there on 1 April 1963. During Word War 2 he was a driver in the Auxilliary Fire Service and a Sergeant in the Special Constabulary. He received the Defence Medal and the Special Constabulary Long-Service Medal. Christie also received the 1937 and 1953 Coronation Medals. He was the first Hon. Treasurer of the VC and GC Association and attended many reunions. Christie was also Treasurer of Davenport Rugby Club, Vice-President and Captain of Bramhall Golf Club and a founder member and past Master of the Albatross Lodge of Freemasons. He died at home in Bramhall in September 1967, aged 72.
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