Name
Charles Henry Crosswell
24/09/1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/12/1919
51
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
651034
Canadian Infantry
160th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORT ELGIN (SANCTUARY PARK) CEMETERY
Canada
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Charles Henry Crosswell was born in Ealing, Middlesex, on 24th September 1878, son of Charles Crosswell a, Bricklayer and Ellen Crosswell (nee Hammonds). One of ten children, although two died in infancy.
1881 Census records Charles Jr. aged 2, living with his parents, sister Frances (4) and brother Anthony (1), at, 4 Providence Cottages, Caterham, Surrey.
1891 Census Charles Jr, (12), is at school, living with his parents four brothers and three sisters, in, Brighton Terrace, Walthamstow, Essex.
Charles Jr. married Beatrice Elizabeth Allen at St Michaels and All Angels Church, Walthamstow, Essex, on 19th December 1897, they went on to have one daughter Maude Beatrice Crosswell.
Charles Jr. emigrated to Canada in about 1905. At one time he served in the Governor Generals Foot Guards in Ottawa. (An Infantry Reserve of Part-time Soldiers). At the time he enlisted he was living in Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario, and working as a Bricklayer.
His father Charles Snr. died in 1912, aged 61.
Wartime Service
Charles Jr. enlisted at Tara, Bruce County, Ontario, on 20th December 1915 aged 37. Posted to “A” Company, 160th (Bruce) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, with the service number 651034. He embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 17th October 1916, aboard the SS “Metagama” for Liverpool, England, arriving on the 28th October 1916. From Liverpool the Battalion went to Witley Camp, in Surrey. In April 1917 while still at Witley Camp, Charles Jr. was taken ill and in November 1917 he was found medically unfit for military service and returned home to Canada.
He was discharged from the Canadian Military as medically unfit for service on, 9th August 1918, at London, Ontario.
He died on 22nd December 1919, aged 41. He is buried in Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
