Name
Ernest Edward Crouch-Baker
1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/01/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11035
Royal Fusiliers *1
13th (County of London) Bn.
3rd Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XXI. B. 1A.
France
Headstone Inscription
PEACE PERFECT PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley
Pre War
Ernest Edward Crouch-Baker was born in 1881, in Kensington, London / Middlesex, son of Samuel Crouch-Baker (1845 – 1918) a Gardener and Sarah Crouch-Baker (1852 – 1928) (nee Caller). One of eight children, three died in infancy.
No 1891 Census records for Ernest or his family was found.
1901 Census records Ernest aged 19, working as an Under Gardener, living at home with his parents and four siblings, at The Stables, Campden Hill, Kensington, London / Middlesex.
In 1907, Ernest married Florence Lily Wells from Cavendish in Suffolk. The marriage was registered in Kensington.
The 1911, Census records Ernest now living at Whitlars-Gardeners Lodge, Kings Langley, Herts, with his wife Florence and two-year-old son Edward who was born in 1909.
In 1915 Ernest and Florence had a second son Ronald Crouch-Baker, born in Kings Langley.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Watford, Herts, posted to The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the Service number PS/11035, serving with, 3 Company, 13th Battalion.
He served on the Western Front and died in Hospital of sickness on 22nd January 1917.
Additional Information
His wife, Mrs. Florence L. Crouch-Baker, 2, High St. Cottages, Kings Langley, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "PEACE PERFECT PEACE". The value of his effects were £3-15s-7d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which went to his Widow Florence Lily Crouch-Baker.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
