Name
Charles Frederick Crawley
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235238
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral, Not on the St Albans memorials(*1)
Pre War
Charles Frederick Crawley was born in 1890, in St Albans, Herts, son of Charles Thomas Crawley (1870 - 1914), and Sarah Jane Crawley (1870 – 1941) (nee Waldock). The eldest of ten children, William (B 1893), Elizabeth (B 1895), Alfred (B 1898), Sarah (B 1900), Dick (B 1901), Lily (B 1902), Ernest (B1908), John (B 1910) and Leonard (B 1911).
1891 Census records Charles as Frederick aged 7 months living with his parents in Ashdown Street, St Pancreas, London / Middlesex.
In the 1901 Census Charles is at school, aged 10, living with his parents and 4 siblings, in Primrose Vale, Kings Langley, Herts.
1911 Census records Charles aged 20, working as a Hay Carter, living with his parents and eight siblings, in Primrose Hill, Kings Langley, Herts.
Charles father, Charles Thomas Crawley died in 1914, aged 44.
Wartime Service
Charles traveled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist, joining the Herts Yeomanry with the service number 2829 (his service number indicates he enlist around October 1914).
He was later transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment with the new service number 235238. Charles was Killed in Action on 4th October 1917, at Passchendaele. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £6-14s-9d, Pay Owing and £8-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his mother Sarah Jane Cox. His mother Sarah was awarded a Dependents Pension of 7/- a week from 23rd April 1918. Her address at the time "Monks Island, Kings Langley, Herts". *1 Records found have recorded his birthplace as St Albans. This may be the case, however St Albans was the main postal location given for nearby villages and hamlets, so it may be that this information is misleading. If more accurate information found this will be updated.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
