Name
William Harwood Crouch
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/10/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10256
Royal Fusiliers *1
9th County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 25 to 27
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
William Harwood Crouch was born in Norton, Baldock in 1884, the son of Walter and Elizabeth Crouch, and was baptised in Baldock on 1 June 1884. He was one of nine children, although three died in infancy. His parents had married in Baldock in 1876 and were living in Norton End, Baldock in 1881.
By the 1891 Census the family had moved to 31 Hewlett Road, Stratford le Bow, London, where his father was working as a railway goods checker. They remained there in 1901 at which time William was working as a builder's labourer. The family remained in Bow in 1911 but had moved to 55 Libra Road, Bow, London. William was then working as a printer packer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London and joined the London Regiment, serving with the 9th Battalion in France from 1 June 1915.
William was killed in action on 19 October 1915 but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 4s 4d. His mother received a pension of five shillings a week.
*1 Probably more correctly (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
