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Pte. James William Crowe
British Army 17th Btn. King's (Liverpool Regiment)
from:Born in Dublin
(d.12th July 1916)
James Crowe and his younger brother John (Coldstream Guards) both fought in France in WW1. James was killed in action on his 30th birthday on 12th July 1916. John (married to Ethel, with son John) was killed in action on 27th September 1918, he was just 28.
Pte. Lawrence Crowe
British Army 1/8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Leeds
(d.13th Oct 1918)
Pte. M. Crowe
Canadian Infantry 8th (Reserve) Bn.
(d.29th March 1918)
Private Crowe was the Son of Patrick Crowe, of Querin.
He is buried in the North-West part of the Querrin (Temple Made) Cemetery, Moyarta, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Pte. Robert Crowe
Canadian Expeditionary Force 8th Btn.
from:Fort William
Bob Crowe enlisted on the 28th of March 1915 in Fort William in the 52nd Battalion CEF Sailed for England on RMS Scandinavian, on the 17th of June attached to 52 Bn. he proceeded to France. He was transferred to 8th Bn and received a shrapnel wound to right hand at Ypres. He was sent to Boulogne then to Southern General Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham. After recovering he was taken on strength of the 8th Bn on the 21st of Nov 1916 Bob was awarded 1 good conduct stripe in the field on the 25th of June 17 and on the 12th of September 1917 he was attached to Can. Corps H.Q`for duty in the field, returning to his own battalion on the 25th of February 1918. On the 15th of November 1918 he was given 14 days leave. Bob was taken sick in February 1919 while on active service in Lesweffles, Belguim and was sick in lines for 3 days, his field medical card shows he was admitted to 50 CCS on 15th of March 19 where it was noted he had had trench fever in 1916 and is now dangerously ill. He was removed from dangerously ill list on the 19th of March and transferred to 32nd Can. General Hosp. in Kent, England on the 26th with a diagnosis chronic bronchitis an Bronchiectosis He was discharged from hospital on the 6th of June 19 and on the 17th was taken on strength at Withey from MRD. On the 16th of August he was taken on strength at the dispersal station and was discharged at No 10 sub depot Port Arthur Ontario on the 26th of August 1919.
Dvr. Thomas Edward Crowe
British Army 110 Batt Royal Field Artillary
from:Isle of Man
(d.28th Mar 1918)
Pte. Wildfred Crowe
British Army 15th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Isle of Man
(d.27th July 1916)
Private Wilfred Crowe serving with the 15th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment died on 27th of July 1916 aged 19. He was the son of Thomas and Harriet Crowe, Andreas, Ramsey, Isle of Man. He is remembered with honour at the Thiepval Memorial.
Rflm. Stanley Howard Crowle
British Army 1st/8th (P.O. Rifles) Btn. 3 Coy. London Regiment
from:London
(d.22nd April 1917)
Stanley Crowle was one of my paternal grandfather's brothers and my late father was named after him. From what I can remember my grandfather loved his elder brother dearly but his war service and death were seldom mentioned apart from the fact that he was buried in a war cemetery somewhere in France or Belgium. A few years ago and due mainly to records being computerised, I was able to find out more about this young man, a distant relative, and via the internet have been able to see a photo of his grave. Stanley died of gunshot wounds to his abdomen and left arm, in no.3 Canadian CCS (Aveluy) at the age of 21. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
2nd Lt Frederick Augustus Crowley
Royal Flying Corps 37 Squadron
from:Adrigole, Bantry, County Cork
(d.26th Feb 1918)
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Crowley, Royal Flying Corps. Died on 26th February 1918 aged 20. Son of Matthew and Mary Crawley, of Adrigole, Bantry, County Cork. Frederick Crowley crashed behind the Cricketers pub during a training flight.
John Nicholas Crowley
British Army 1st King Edward's Horse
from:
STO PO Timothy Crowley DSM
Royal Navy HMS Moorsom
from:Brandon, Cork
Born 28th May 1878, Timothy Crowley joined the Royal Navy in 1897. He received the China Medal in 1900 and the DSM in 1916 while serving on HMS Moorson at the Battle of Jutland.
The Gazette reads: "For the efficient way he took charge of his stokehold, when the Oil Fuel tank, which was in use, got holed, and changing over with quick despatch, the ship being going full speed at the time."
He was demobilised from the Navy in November 1919.
Lt. Ambrose Henry Thomas Crowson
British Army Leicestershire Regiment
from:Atherstone, Warwickshire
Ambrose Crowson was my Great Grandfather. At the time of the second world war he was the manager of the Birch Coppice colliery, I believe he was living in the Atherstone area at the time. Ambrose was a former officer of the Leicestershire Regiment during WW1, having been commissioned as 2nd Lt early in 1918. During the German spring offensive of May 1918 he was captured, suffering from shell shock, in his trench after a heavy and sustained German bombardment. He was captured on 27th of May 1918, along with some of his fellow 8th Battalion and 4th Battalion officers, and was subsequently interred at the Schweidnitz officers P.O.W. camp in Germany (this is now part of modern day Poland). He was repatriated in 1919.
I know little of his 2nd World War service, other than his willingness to volunteer once again to 'do his bit' I know that he had commanded a home guard unit, despite the fact he was working at the coal mine 7 days a week. I obtained his Home Guard unit information, I'd always believed he commanded the Dorden and Grendon home guard, but this may not be the case.
Pte. Francis Henry Crowson
British Army 9th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Helpston, Northants
I believe Francis Crowson (my grandfather) joined in 1914 and went through WWI leaving in 1920. A mustard gas attack affected his breathing for the rest of his life. I believe he was not recognised or mentioned at all. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
He later joined the home guard as a sergeant in WW11 stationed at Perkins factory in Peterborough. He died in 1955.
Pte. Frank Crowther
British Army 2/6th Btn., D Coy. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bradford, Yorkshire
(d.11th April 1917)
Frank Crowther was born on 24th July 1897 in Bradford. He was from a mill family and after school he became a worsted spinner.
He joined D Company of the 2/6th West Yorkshire Regiment and arrived in France in January 1917. Frank was killed in action during the First Battle of the Scarpe, near Arras, on 11th April 1917. He was 19 years old. In his Will, dated January 1917, he left the sum of Ă‚ÂŁ10 to be divided equally between his father and stepmother. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Pte. Harry Crowther
British Army 6th Btn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Todmorden
(d.22nd August 1917)
Harry Crowther was my great uncle. I never knew him but he deserves to be remembered.
Pte. John Crowther
British Army Hampshire Regiment
from:Shrewsbury
Pte. Joseph Frederick Crowther
British Army 20th Btn. B Coy Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
Joseph Crowther died age 22 whilst serving with the 20th DLI. Born Jarrow, he was the on of Georgina Chambers (formerly Crowther nee Wouldhave) of 27 Curry Street Back Jarrow and the late James Francis Crowther. On the 1911 census Joseph Frederick Crowther age 14, Apprentice Plumber at Palmer Shipyard is listed as living with his mother Georgina Chambers and stepfather John Chambers and family at 56 Queens Road, Jarrow
Joseph is buried in Vaulx Hill Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (north face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Milton Crowther
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Rochdale,
(d.22nd May 1918)
Crowther was the Son of James and Susannah Crowther; husband of Helena Crowther of 104 Molesworth St., Rochdale. Born at Nelson, Lancs, he was 41 when he died and is buried in the Somerset Military Burial Ground in Bermuda.
George Croxford
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:3 Tremeddan Lane
We found this photograph at my Gran's house in Watlington, Oxon. My Grandfather was George Croxford and I know he was a soldier fighting in France. This is a postcard dated 1919. Can anyone shed any light on this please?
Pte. Ernest Crozier
British Army 9th Btn. Yorks & Lancs
from:Chesterfield
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte J J Crozier
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:171, Malcolm St., Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
(d.31st Mar 1918)
Crozier, J, J. Private, 19/406, Died of Wounds on 31st March 1918. Aged 27 years.
Buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, in grave XXXIII. B. 4.
Son of James and Jane Crozier, of 171, Malcolm St., Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Native of Newcastle.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. James Crozier
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.27th Feb 1916)
James Crozier was executed for desertion 27/02/1916, he was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Crozier, of 80, Battenberg Street, Belfast.
James Crozier from Belfast was shot at dawn for desertion – he was just sixteen. Before his execution, Crozier was given so much rum that he passed out. He had to be carried, semi-conscious, to the place of execution. Officers at the execution later claimed that there was a very real fear that the men in the firing squad would disobey the order to shoot.
One of the most poignant and, best documented judicial slayings of being ‘Shot at Dawn’ was that of 18 year old James Crozier from Belfast. In 1916 his commanding officer was a namesake, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Crozier. James was a 16 years old apprentice in Belfast shipyard when he enlisted in September 1914. He was under age and his mother came as far as the recruiting officer to persuade him not to join up. She threatened her son that she would tell the recruiting officer his real age. James said, ‘You cannot do that, mother, if you do you will be a coward and none of your family were ever cowards’. At this point the then Major Crozier said to the mother, ‘Do not worry, I will look after him and see that no harm comes to him’. Events would show that the officer was not as good as his word.
Rifleman James Crozier spent the dreadful winter of 1915/16 in the trenches of the Somme. In February of that miserable cold, dreary wet winter James Crozier went missing from his sentry post. He had walked a considerable distance when he was admitted to an Army Medical Post. At his court martial he said that he had not known what he was doing when he made off, being in a daze and suffering from pains throughout his body. However the doctor who examined him pronounced him fit for active service and he was returned to his unit to face the consequences of his desertion. Lt. Col. Percy Crozier in evidence stated that this was not a case of a confused and disorientated young man who left his post to check into a field hospital. Rather he was a cunning deserter. He also said that James Crozier, fed-up, cold, wet to the skin and despondent, had sneaked off from the line under cover of darkness, throwing away his rifle, ammunition and equipment. (A legal ground for a second charge also punishable by death)
Percy Crozier’s distortion of the facts makes it easier for him to explain away his subsequent actions. The young rifleman was court- martialed and found guilty of desertion. Despite his promise to the boy’s mother the officer had no hesitation in recommending to higher authority that the sentence be carried out. The carrying out of the sentence itself often verged on black farce. According to Lt. Col. Crozier, he plied his young namesake with drink in order ‘to ease his living misery’ before his execution. He may also have had a desire to ensure that the young man went to his death in a state of sufficient oblivion to avoid any embarrassing scenes. The officer was conscious that feelings against the execution were running high in the battalion. The military police and the assistant provost marshal were convinced that the firing party would deliberately miss. They even feared a mutiny by the troops.
Just before dawn on the morning of 27th February 1916 the battalion was paraded, the execution was to take place in a walled garden so Crozier’s comrades could hear, but would not see, what happened. Not unexpectedly, the firing squad failed to find their target, and the officer in charge was obliged to step forward and put a bullet through young Crozier’s head. Because of his promise to the young boy’s mother; Percy Crozier attempted to have his name added to a list of field casualties. He failed in this and Mrs. Crozier was duly notified that her only son had been shot for desertion, and she was denied the normal allowances payable on the death of next-of-kin. Percy Crozier commanding officer of the 9th Royal Irish Rifles, despite his promise to the boy’s mother had no hesitation in recommending to higher authority that the dearth sentence be carried out. He tried to justify his stand by saying that, ‘When it fell my lot to recommend the carrying out or remitting of the death sentence, I invariably recommended the carrying out of the extreme penalty – because I expected to be shot myself if I ran away’, Crozier was conscious that feelings against the execution were running high in the battalion.
Outside the winter snow lined the ground. James Crozier's guards wanted him to walk the short distance to a small garden where the firing party was waiting. The young rifleman was too drunk to move, and he had to be carried out into the open space. By now he was practically unconscious. Bound with ropes, he was attached to the execution post. His battalion formed up on the open road close to the garden. Screened by a wall, they wouldn't see the execution but would hear the shots.
Crozier's namesake Frank Percy Crozier, the man who recruited him and promised his mother he'd watch out for her son, was now preparing to watch him die. Crozier later recalled how he was secured to a stake 10 yards from the firing squad. "There are hooks on the post; we always do things thoroughly in the Rifles. He is hooked on like dead meat in a butcher's shop. His eyes are bandaged - not that it really matters, for he is already blind."
Then James Crozier was shot "A volley rings out - a nervous volley it is true, yet a volley. Before the fatal shots are fired I had called the battalion to attention. There is a pause, I wait. I see the medical officer examining the victim. He makes a sign, the subaltern strides forward, a single shot rings out. Life is now extinct." The firing squad, made up of men from his own regiment, shot wide, so James Crozier was killed by a bullet fired by a junior officer. After the shooting, as Frank Crozier recalled, life resumed as normal. " We march back to breakfast while the men of a certain company pay the last tribute at the graveside of an unfortunate comrade. This is war."
Frank Crozier didn't want James' family to discover how he had died. He tried but failed to pass off his death as 'killed in action'. Details of the manner of Crozier's death leaked out - though the facts weren't made public at the time. Weeks later one of Frank Crozier's officers was tackled about the shooting while on leave. He was asked by a civilian about the Crozier execution, and it was suggested that it had brought shame on the battalion and on the city of Belfast.
Pte R E Crozier
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.11th Jul 1916)
Crozier, R, E. Private, 19/1190. Killed in action on 11th July 1916.
Buried in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, in grave I. B. 26.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Private Crozier was a member of the 19th Btn and is shown in both Btn and CWGC records as such with service number 19/1190. However as at 18/07/2012 his CWGC headstone incorrectly shows him as 17/1190, this is the 17th Btn. The CWGC have been requested to amend the headstone.
Tpr. Richard Walters Crozier
Australian Imperial Force 6th Australian Light Horse
from:Australia
(d.4th Aug 1916)
Richard Walters Crozier was born at Numurkah, Victoria in 1892. At the outbreak of the First World War he was living and working in Culcairn, New South Wales as a farmer. Crozier enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 16 January 1915. He was aged 23 at the time and had no prior military experience. He departed Newcastle aboard HMAT Bakara on 22 May 1915. Crozier was assigned to the 6th Australian Light Horse and remained with this unit throughout his service. His younger brother, Private Sydney George Crozier, also served with this unit in the Middle East.
He arrived at Gallipoli on 2 October 1915. He received a minor shrapnel wound to the neck on 25 November 1915 and was sent to Malta to receive medical attention. Crozier re-joined his unit at Maadi, Egypt on 8 February 1916. Richard Crozier was killed in action on 4 August 1916 during the battle of Romani, the last Ottoman offensive against the Suez Canal, and is buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Pte. Alexander Cruickshank
British Army 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Broughty Ferry, Dundee
(d.14th July 1916)
Alexander was the son of James Emslie Cruickshank and Isabella Smith Cruickshank (nee Jamieson) of 146 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire. He was one of eight children. He was the only one of the family to die in the war. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
Pte. Arthur Lewis Cruickshank
British Army 8th Btn. King's Liverpool
from:Sherbrooke, Canada
(d.8th Aug 1916)
My great great Uncle, Arthur Cruickshank was born in Sherbrooke, Canada to an Irish mother, Louisa Kinkead. My daughters and I just visited the Thiepval Memorial in Flanders, and saw his name on the memorial.
Oddly, we have records showing that he enlisted in the US Army in 1901 and then must have joined the 8th King's for the war. He was killed in an attack on the village of Guillemont.
Pte. David Waddell Cruickshank
British Army 1st Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Glasgow
My Grandfather David Cruickshank fought the Battle of Le Cateau, He was born in Glasgow in 1894. He joined the 1st Battalion the Cameronians (The Scottish Rifles) early in 1914. Army number 11132. The Regiment was training in the Highlands in Perthshire, when they were called back to Merryhill Barracks Hamilton. The Regiment was entrained to Southampton, and crossed over to Le Havre, from there they went to Mons, where the Cams were put into a new division, the 19th, they were put to the left of the Mons-Conde canal.
After the battle of Mons, 2nd Corps was the last to get away, they walked night and day in the sweltering August heat without food and water, getting involved in skirmishes along the way. Eventually reaching Le Cateau, the Regiment was told to make for the train station or get some rest in the town square. The battle of Le Cateau started the following morning at about 6.30 am.
My Grandad and another Cameronian were trapped in the town, he ran down a street but the Germans were coming the other way, he ran into a doorway, where there was a local woman with a bucket of water, a shot was fired at him but missed and hit the bucket and the lady's dress. He had already been wounded before the battle, so he laid down in the street feigning death, as he said in an interview in Paris in 1927, the street was full of dead horses and men, so I just led there hoping the enemy would pass me by, which they did. He crawled into an alleyway and found a garden full of flowers and shrubs, he lay there for hours, and he said he could here British Artillery firing over his head. He crawled into a cellar of a house, where Madame Baudhuin looked after him. This brave lady kept him for over two years, until his capture in 1916. He was sentenced to death by a German court marshall, and Madame Baudhuin was sentenced to ten years in prison in Germany. There is a lot more to this story, some funny some sad, further details can be found on hellfirecorner.co.uk
Pte. G. Cruickshank MM, CDG.
British Army 89th Highland Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Aberdeenshire
G Cruickshank MM, CDG, served with the 89th Highland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. We found out about him after the passing of his niece recently when we were looking through house contents.
2nd Lt. Raymond Alfred Cruickshank
British Army 2nd Btn. 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Newport, Mon
(d.23rd Apr 1917)
Alfred Cruicksjhnk was the eldest son of William Henry & Martha Cruickshank of St Julians Avenue, Newport, Mon. He was in the 2nd Batt of the Monmouthshire Regiment, and commissioned in October 1916.
2nd Lt. Raymond Alfred Cruickshank
British Army 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Newport, Monmouthshire.
(d.23rd Apr 1917)
Raymond was born on 11th March, 1893, in Tregegar, Monmouthshire, the eldest son of William Henry and Martha Ann Cruickshank. He worked as a clerk and in his spare time, besides being a lay preacher, he studied theology. He also took great interest in Newport Rugby matches, going to many of their games. In September, 1914 he went to Canada for a while and joined a Canadian regiment then transfered to the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Monmouths on the 25th of October 1916 and married Gladys Maud Green in December 1916.
The Monmouthshie Regiment was part of the Territorial Force. The 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment has it’s origin in the Pontypool Volunteer Rifles Corps, which was established in 1858. Other Corps were founded at Abersychan, Abercarn, Ebbw Vale, Pontymoile and Tredegar. And in 1860 these, joining the Pontypool Corps became the 2nd Monmouthshie Rifle Corps. New Colours were presented by King Edward VII in 1908. these were deposited in the parish church of Trevethin and are now in the memorial Chapel. A memorial to those who fell in World War I was unveiled at Trevethin Church on March 3rd 1923.
Capt. S. C.W. Cruickshank
British Army Royal Tank Corps
7423 Pte S.C.W. Cruickshank served with the 8th Royal Scots. He entered the War early and fought in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. I have the 1914-1918 Medal trio for Capt. S.C.W. Cruickshank. His medal index card shows him with two different numbers, for 8 R Scots. They are: 7423 and 335090. The number 7423 appears on the rear of his 1914 Star. The BWM and the AVM both show him as an officer, therefore there are no numbers.
His medal index card shows him as a 2/Lt Tank Corps. But he was later promoted to A/Captain, and then to Captain. The actual medals are engraved as follows:
1914 Star: 7423 Pte. S.C.W. Cruickshank 8/R.Scots BWM: Capt S.C.W. Cruickshank AVM: Capt S.C.W. Cruickshank There is no "Mons" Bar on the 1914 Star. This is because, I am reliably informed by another correspondent of mine, Cruickshank was with the 8th Battalion, Royal Scots, who were a Territorial Force battalion at the time and that they arrived in France (as the first Scottish battalion to do so) on 5th November, joining the 22nd Brigade of the 7th Division on 11th November. That they did not qualify for the "Mons" bar (5th August-22nd November) was very probably because they only saw action much later, that is, only on 10th to 13th March 1915 at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
Cruickshank transferred from the Royal Scots to the Royal Tank Corps in 1917. There are a number of London Gazette entries showing his promotion from temporary 2nd Lt through to A/Captain and Captain. His Great War medal trio are part of the David Bennett Collection.
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